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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: LindyBill who wrote (9962)	2/26/2007 8:41:42 PM
From: Skywatcher	Respond to of 36917

they held back civilization by not aknowledging the concept OF ZERO...they really were boneheads on that account

To: LindyBill who wrote (9962)	2/26/2007 8:49:19 PM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 36917

>>the South American Indians is that they had no large animals<< I think Moctezuma had a few llamas in his zoo at Tenochtitlan around the time Cortez arrived. Llamas can't carry a saddle very well because their backs are the wrong shape, but they can pull carts pretty well. So if the Europeans had not arrived to spoil the party, I bet llamas would have spread throughout Central and North America. Given enough time, farmers would have developed various breeds of llamas for chariots, plows, dairy, and meat. See: llamacarting3-2-1.com A couple other important technologies the Greeks and Romans lacked are soap and printing.