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- From: tom@europa.lonestar.org (Tom Kimball)
- Newsgroups: soc.history
- Subject: What technology did the American Indians have?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.045605.2763@europa.lonestar.org>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 04:56:05 GMT
- Organization: Moria Mining Guild (BBS) -- Dallas, Texas, USA
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- I recently watched a Nova episode on TV about the European Iceman from 3300 BC.
- It turns out he had a copper axe.
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- Eastern Hemisphere civilizations progressed from stone tools to copper tools
- to bronze tools to iron tools. Which of these tools did the Western Hemosphere
- natives possess in 1491?
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- I would like to get a sense of how advanced Western Hemisphere technology was
- in 1491 compared to the Eastern Hemisphere. Did the Europeans have greater
- technology in 3300 BC than the Americans in 1491 AD? How did the Aztec and
- Incan civilizations compare with the Roman or Egyptian civilizations, for
- example?
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- Tom Kimball tom@europa.lerctr.org
- tom@europa.lonestar.org tom%europa@egsner.cirr.com
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