I am always arguing with leftists on this. They usually translate info like this into, oh, evil white people came and killed and destroyed these folk.
What really happened is they got tired of banging rocks together out in the wild to eat and die and were smart enough to say, hey prosperity, I’d like some of that too.
They come out of the sticks and into civilization and intermarry. And drive cars and buy houses like everyone else.
One of my sisters and I were marveling recently about some technological advances, when she said, “Yet there are places in the world where people still have not figured out that they should not defecate in the same waters where they get their drinking water!”