Kind of amazing that they became good with horses. Also, the whole culture of the plains Indian, making teepees and hunting buffalo never existed before European horses were brought over.
Since European diseases mainly came from domesticated animals which didn't exist in the Americas, you have to wonder if horses contributed to the Indian's demise via European diseases.
i highly recommend Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel. I first read it in my university anthro class, and it put the demise of the natives and european expansion in context. thank god for conservative profs.
They blame "blankets" for spreading the diseases, and what is a common requirement for ridding a horse? It think we can reasonably extrapolate that horses accelerated the spread, as they also allowed a much faster form of travel and therefore trade than they had access to prior.
"They" claim our government deliberately gave Indians blankets contaminated with small pox. Before germ theory was discovered.
Does not check out.
Why would they need to understand germ theory to know that corpses are associated with disease? The Golden Horde and other armies throughout medieval history (and previously?) lobbed disease-ridden corpses into besieged castles and fortifications in order to worsen the situation of the besieged. And well-poisoners and poisoners are well-known from ancient times as far as I know.
Europeans hurled cows that died of disease over castle walls during siege. Imagine how much easier it would have been to infect something smaller with the disease and hurl that instead.
They didn't.
Same concept. A blanket is not a corpse. Nobody deliberately spread small pox by blanket to Indians. Small pox spread WAY before the alleged events took place.
The notion should never have been in a history book.
Kind of amazing that they became good with horses. Also, the whole culture of the plains Indian, making teepees and hunting buffalo never existed before European horses were brought over.
Since European diseases mainly came from domesticated animals which didn't exist in the Americas, you have to wonder if horses contributed to the Indian's demise via European diseases.
i highly recommend Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel. I first read it in my university anthro class, and it put the demise of the natives and european expansion in context. thank god for conservative profs.
They blame "blankets" for spreading the diseases, and what is a common requirement for ridding a horse? It think we can reasonably extrapolate that horses accelerated the spread, as they also allowed a much faster form of travel and therefore trade than they had access to prior.
"They" claim our government deliberately gave Indians blankets contaminated with small pox. Before germ theory was discovered.
Does not check out.
Also, Indians rode bareback. Blankets are a hoax. Except for one time a Jesuit distributed some.
Why would they need to understand germ theory to know that corpses are associated with disease? The Golden Horde and other armies throughout medieval history (and previously?) lobbed disease-ridden corpses into besieged castles and fortifications in order to worsen the situation of the besieged. And well-poisoners and poisoners are well-known from ancient times as far as I know.
Europeans hurled cows that died of disease over castle walls during siege. Imagine how much easier it would have been to infect something smaller with the disease and hurl that instead.
They didn't.
Same concept. A blanket is not a corpse. Nobody deliberately spread small pox by blanket to Indians. Small pox spread WAY before the alleged events took place.
The notion should never have been in a history book.