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My question concerns the native americans. the basis of the framework of this quarry is, there are certian things necessary for a civilization to develope. like, we start out as nomads. then we start farming. then with advancments like metal working and writing we grow and start developing into great civilizations. some groups, such as say indegenous tribes in the amazon or tribes in africa, still live the way they have for several thousand years. still using stone tools, no metal working besides basic unrefined jewelry.there are several key factors to this. one is the availiabilty of some type of cereal grain, which would allow solid farming of a crop which is high in nutrition and capable of being stored over long periods and transported feasibly. another factor is the lack of proper beasts of burdon, which are necessary for farming to be efficient enough to allow that each family is not required to spend the majority of their time towards growing te basic food to live. this allows a portion of the society or group to do non-farming tasks usually priests are the first luzury positions as well as builders and professional military or traders. when advancements are made thru true innovation or learning from other groups, it gets applied to farming,, military and making life better. and perhaps the priests/educated people can somehow record this knowledge, thru writing if lucky. the people need access to enough land to be able to farm and support an increasing populaton and they have to be able to defend themselves, though their knowledge would probably be assimilated. they need access to natural metal deposits to be able to begin working soft metals such as gold, silver and copper. then they start messing with alloys and stuff and then your at the bronze age. thats pretty good, alexander the great thought so. anyway, why didnt the native americans do this. they had access to all these things. even the writing to some degree, and they did have lots of contact and trading between groups. some of which was war, so they had plent of necessity to motivate any advancement. so why didnt they grow the way the european, or asian cultures did? i guess the aftican cultures didnt really, they were brought from the "dark continent" to the modern world when the british and other eurpoeans took over. but, afticans asside? why did the netive americans not evolve as a culture and society along a similar path as the major societies? they had a nomadic cultire that may not have had the farming that allowed as large of a percentage to devote to craftsmen and inventers, but still? why? does anyone with any antropological or sociological or other backgrounds or book learnin types know? or have any good suggestions? if your opinion comes from something you saw on tv, what show? thanks