To: Cronos
An extension of the peaceful native tripe.
No place had war unless Europeans arrived.
3 posted on
04/10/2018 3:58:47 AM PDT by
MrEdd
(Caveat Emptor)
To: MrEdd
Not in this case. Europeans are just another part of Eurasia - there was trading, warefare, diseaases, culture, religion and language spred from Taiwan to Ireland and places in between
The indus valley civilization didn't have any aggressor states nearby
Their successor states in the Punjab were quite warlike -- remember that they nearly defeated Alexander.
11 posted on
04/10/2018 4:17:45 AM PDT by
Cronos
(Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
To: MrEdd
They had no war because they were large, organized, and surrounded by desert and mountains and disorganized nomads.
16 posted on
04/10/2018 4:58:04 AM PDT by
VanShuyten
("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
To: MrEdd
I'm not sure about that. When Europeans came to the new world and when they arrived in some of the remote islands in the Pacific... Europeans found native people who were cannibals. Some tribes attacked other tribes on a regular basis and had very developed rituals of music and dance which were associated with warfare and which initiated and celebrated ‘warriors’.
The whole myth of the peaceful, ‘noble savage’ is just that... a myth. One exception I read about was the N American Hopi people. Also-I never read about Australian native people conducting warfare.
23 posted on
04/10/2018 5:38:30 AM PDT by
SMARTY
("Nearly all men can stand adversity...to test a man's character, give him power." A. Lincoln)
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