Current Events > Where's North American history at?

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I don't care about what conquers did in Europe. I want to hear about people from Asia migrating to America and settling. Who were the conquers in a North America? What wars and badass stories did they have? Their plan to eradicate the settlers. Top 10 anime betrayals.

Rome is played. This is a gold mine nobody is touching.


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Its mostly in the wheelhouse of archaeology and anthropology, as very few pre-Columbian had writing. And, of course, European sources are incredibly biased and dismissive.
And the European settlers in North America were essentially encountering post-apocalyptic societies that, in many cases, bore little resemblance to what existed even 50 years prior.

dolomedes posted...

oral history dies in genocide

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after humans migrated across the land bridge/island hopped by boat to the americas they spent several thousand years not having written records and killing each other until the europeans got here and destroyed them. there was little history before the europeans got here, and there was functionally none after they were finished.

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Well know once we unearth the pyramids here

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A lot of North American history is Europeans conquering

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History on Fire podcasts has some episodes on this I think, but I haven't listened in a while

I remember Moctezuma was the ancient world's Trump and he got what was coming to him

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as they said they didn't write it down. We don't have anything from the Olmecs, Mayans, much from the Incans and Aztecs outside of oral tradition either. Aside from the Olmecs and Mayans they didn't build a bunch of stuff either that lasted so we miss out on that as well. We can't even know what happened to the Mayans who were well on their way to 'high civilization'.

Also a goldmine? They all would have been small scale conflicts compared to what we know, because no one would have had the manpower to stand up to the Incans or Aztecs, they just crushed all opposition.

I'm sad we lost out on a lot of the fables and myths moreso than battle history. :(

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R1masher posted...

Well know once we unearth the pyramids here

North America actually had pyramids tho

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Ivynn posted...

North America actually had pyramids tho

We still do. Michael Strahan built one for a game show

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