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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3173034, member: 112"]There are a great many inventions, methods, etc that occurred in the rest of the world that never occurred in the New World until the Europeans came. The wheel for example, it was thousands of years old, but didn't even exist in the New World. Before the Europeans came, native Americans were still using flint tools and weapons. Something that had completely ceased in the rest of the world long, long, before.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is also said that native Americans north or south never developed smelting, the ability to turn raw ore into metal. Yes they worked with metals but only metals that they found in its raw and nearly pure form, and even then it was copper, silver, or gold. nothing else. It is that that explains the impurities in all their metals. Later they obtained metal from other outside sources, namely Europeans.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3173034, member: 112"]There are a great many inventions, methods, etc that occurred in the rest of the world that never occurred in the New World until the Europeans came. The wheel for example, it was thousands of years old, but didn't even exist in the New World. Before the Europeans came, native Americans were still using flint tools and weapons. Something that had completely ceased in the rest of the world long, long, before. It is also said that native Americans north or south never developed smelting, the ability to turn raw ore into metal. Yes they worked with metals but only metals that they found in its raw and nearly pure form, and even then it was copper, silver, or gold. nothing else. It is that that explains the impurities in all their metals. Later they obtained metal from other outside sources, namely Europeans.[/QUOTE]
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