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11-14-2012, 11:19 AM | #1 |
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Is that Cracked.com site factual?
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11-14-2012, 11:58 AM | #2 |
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Follow the links. I'm fond of Mesa Verde myself.
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11-14-2012, 11:59 AM | #3 |
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Yeah. Folks took us there when we were kids, couldn't believe it was real.
Those people lived up so high. How they hell could they have made that by hand? So cool.
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11-14-2012, 12:05 PM | #4 |
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My dad took me up there as a teen. It's an incredible experience. Especially if you've been spoon fed "history" like I was as a child. Here is this city created in a cliff. As complex as a European castle. Built by "savages."
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11-14-2012, 01:29 PM | #5 |
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Savages? I don't think anyone has said or thought that since the days of the Wild Wild West have they?
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11-14-2012, 01:48 PM | #6 |
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When I was a child the common thread was that these people were a small step above cavemen, and benefited greatly from our civilizing influence.
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11-14-2012, 01:59 PM | #7 |
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That's horrible.
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11-14-2012, 01:13 PM | #8 |
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I did and it seemed factual but I noticed it was a humor site so I had to ask.
I found the bit about the Vikings interesting. I had heard they had sailed to Nova Scotia as early as 1200 AD but never heard of any encounters with the natives, and definitely not as early as 960 AD. There just so much information, and with that misinformation, out there. I wish I could know it all! |
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11-14-2012, 01:27 PM | #10 |
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I wonder how things would have turned out had the Native Americans had resistances to Old World diseases.
The whole ordeal would have taken a lot longer, that's for sure. Assuming the tribes were able to band together for a common cause, we might have seen an infusion of white settlers into Native societies as opposed to what happened.. |
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11-14-2012, 01:49 PM | #12 |
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Big difference between North America at the time and the others you name here.
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You can check their references yourself, they cite basically every non-opinion thing they claim. One of their references is a resolution passed by congress recognizing the influence of the Iroquois Confederacy on the US Constitution.
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