[Lurker]

“Would the current native Americans wish to go back to the pre-Columbian stone age living as hunter gatherers.“

I asked one of them that very question once. He was stunned for a moment and then made the claim that the Native Americans would have caught up in these area if given enough time. So I asked how much time he thought it would take.

Dead silence.

It was pretty funny.

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[ExTxMarine]

He was stunned for a moment and then made the claim that the Native Americans would have caught up in these area if given enough time.

I think if you look at the middle east and several other countries around the world, his statement is more about being boastful than truthful!

There are countries and ideologies around the world that still, to this day, refuse to change their "culture" or adopt modern technology and teachings. Many of these culture-driven areas and regions refuse to even try improvements that are offered freely (without the Empirical expansion requirements).

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Native Americans would have caught up in these area if given enough time.****

It would have taken at least 6500 years as 7000 years ago Northern Europe was still in the Stone age.

On the other hand, it probably would have taken the Australian Aborigines at least 10,000 years to catch up. From what I read fifty years ago, the Tasmanians were far behind the American Indians.

[Nabber]

They couldn’t even come up with the idea of The Wheel?
Sheesh....