On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 05:21:33 +0000 (UTC), Andrew Barss
wrote:

Chuck wrote:
:
: Ah, must be a feller who also doesn't eat (or drink) corn, spuds,

.................................................. .................................................. ..................^^^^^
: venison, pumpkin, jerky, use tobacco, believe in rotating crops,
.................................................. ........^^^^^^^^^^^

I don't think the Indians were the first to invent irrigation,
democracy, or public works projects. And I would think the
agricultural societies in Europe would have been rotating crops, although
I'm not utterly positive.

Well, you deleted the portion of the post where I said:

(well, the Euros knew about slavery, of course and had
forgotten what the Greeks taught them about democracy, but there are
bound to be some overlaps. )
...........................^^^^^^^^^^^^^

And in fact there was crop rotation all over the world, and not all
Indians rotated their crops. Indeed, their is evidence that many
groups exhausted their soil, then moved on to other areas.

Public works projects were common to the ancient Egyptians, too.

My point wasn't that all of these things were unique to Indian
societies, but that they had been done that way by Indians, as a
counter to the original statement about things being done the "Indian
way."


You can also add potatoes as one of the plants original to the Americas.

(See first quote)

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