Would the Native American civilizations advanced much, had the Europeans not arrived?

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I'm sure we all know that the Native Americans weren't particularly advanced people — their technology was quite lacking in comparison to that of Europe/Asia. While Egyptians had been building huge cities, and Europeans were constructing industries and forging armies and waging massive wars, much is unknown about the Native Americans past.

Now, take a look at Europe's technology and weapons, compared to that of the natives. Guns, ships, huge stone walls and cannons and the like. None of this existed in North America.

How long do you suppose it would take for the Native Americans to catch up to the Europeans in this sense? Would they ever catch up? Their culture was different, of course. While the Europeans were set on consuming all the resources they could find, the natives seemed to prize conservation.

Given a thousand years, do you think Native American culture and technology would change significantly, had there been no invasion?
In 4000 years, empires would rise and fall. Yet What of Native American history? There are no such monuments of bygone eras.
 
how much of that 'advanced technology' was actually NEEDED?

how much grain and food has to ROT because it's gathered and stored in quantity so massive it does rot before it's consumed.

Why is it NOW, TODAY . Suddenly the whole globe wants to live 'GREEN" like our 'prehistoric' society did.

ALL those 'monuments' are merely EGO. Not of the people , but 1 in particular.

you're view is myopic at best.
 
how much of that 'advanced technology' was actually NEEDED?

how much grain and food has to ROT because it's gathered and stored in quantity so massive it does rot before it's consumed.

Why is it NOW, TODAY . Suddenly the whole globe wants to live 'GREEN" like our 'prehistoric' society did.

ALL those 'monuments' are merely EGO. Not of the people , but 1 in particular.

you're view is myopic at best.
 
So are you saying that since the Native Americans weren't as military advanced, that this gave the Europeans the right to kill, enslave and force them to convert to christianity. Also, do this proof that Europeans are civilized. What about the Indians who took care of the white settlers the 1st year that they were there. Did they not show a christ like gesture by their act of humanity and love of stranger? What is your point?
 
Native American’s would be just as advanced. Maybe not as advanced technology wise as Europe & Asia, but in other ways. They built/created what they needed to survive. I think people forget what Native Americans contributed to the Europeans. We hunted, gathered, fished, planted crops and were very advanced in our medicines. We ended up showing them these things when they came over. Without our help, they wouldn’t have survived here. They also took this knowledge back over and used it to help their own counties.

When Europeans came over sure they brought over more advances technology, but with that they also brought disease, death and destruction. We didn’t need guns to protect ourselves, until the Europeans came over. There were battles between tribes, but there wasn’t anything like wars over in Europe. I think we would have been just as advanced.
 
Hell yeah! The Native Americansthat migrated from Asia were hunter-gatherers with rocks for weapons, and by colonial times had farming and irrigation, as well as a complex society and pretty advanced weaponry (the atlatl, bow and arrows, harpoons). And who's to say they weren't as advanced? The Mayans built huge stone cities and had a Priest-based government. Who knows what would have happened had European expansion not repressed them.
 
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