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In reply to the discussion: I could see that the white man did not care about each other the way our people did. [View all]appalachiablue
(41,127 posts)until introduced to them by Europeans. They saw that horses increase travel, hunting, contact with resources, other places and adopted them to defend against whites. Europeans were already driven, in their cultures, by quest for more materialistic goods and resources by the late 1400s conquest of the New World.
What about ME, African and Far East cultures, in general? Many of their centers had empires, resources, technology, travel and trade among themselves and with Europe since their land mass, though large, was connected and could be reached by horse or ship. Are these regions closer to Europe in their ways and culture? And Native Americans who are two oceans and many miles away from materially advanced societies therefore less greedy and selfish?