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How do you explain that the North American Indians didn't have silk and ceramics then? They didn't have horses either.
I'm guessing you're talking about Jared Diamond's theory of geographic luck. For those who don't know what that is, it is the theory that the Europeans became the dominating race because of, well, geographic luck. The Fertile Crescent was right next to them, so they got grains such as barley and wheat, unlike many other places such as New Guinea. There was also a lot of natural resources, the diseases there were deadly to the people they visited like the Aztecs, blah blah blah. It's really interesting, I highly recommend looking into it.
In his theory, he states that flora and fauna can live on their own in any other place with the same longitude, which is why you can find horses across Asia, Europe, and North America naturally. Silkworms were farmed in China, but they weren't around in America. Why? Well, it's simple: silkworms
can live in North America, but it didn't. Corn could have grown in Europe, but it didn't originate there. Same with pigs in North America, etc.
Some Native American tribes did have access to horses. But not all.
And as for ceramics, I guess it just wasn't invented there. The oldest ceramics found were in Mesopotamia and India, they likely spread from there and weren't invented spontaneously, like archery.
Sorry for the long post, I kinda got carried away.
