America seems to have a lot of them: earthquakes in the west, tornadoes in the middle, hurricanes in the south.
Surely the natives must've figured out the patterns before Europeans arrived? Wouldn't it make sense to settle there, where indians knew it was safe?
Or were they constantly on the move every season to avoid tornadoes and such?
Your daily reminder that Native Americans came from Siberia and crossed over the Bering Strait about 400 years before European colonists arrived
>400 years before
More like 20000 years before.
Native Americans were nomadic and most natural disasters in the US are seasonal. They would leave before shit got crazy.
Europe is, climate wise, fairly stable so staying in one place makes much more sense. Since food scarcity increases during Winter it was advantageous to stock pile preserved food like squirrels and hunker down. This put natural selection pressure on frontal lobes for Europeans.
This is the reason why native Americans had a poor concept of land ownership and Europeans had an exaggerated concept of land ownership.
>400 years
Oh lawd, touch his head.
He's very wrong but its between 13500 and 15000 years ago not 20000.
>400 years
I don't think it is possible for that many langauges to separate and cultures to form in 400 years.
are you serious?
that sounds vaguely racist
Ohio do be looking comfy tho
Why are americans so fucking stupid?
>Arizona
>floods
just superior THVLE inuit explorers who outlasted the vikangs
>I live in an Earthquake risk zone
This is news to me
I've been through hurricanes, floods, and tornadoes but I've only ever experienced one earthquake
He’s right except for the frontal lobe bullshit
>about 400 years
De fuq?
>overlap of high and medium earthquake risk
what did he mean by this?
If you ripped enough hearts, the elements eventually favored you
>Native Americans were nomadic
Not all, there were several civilizations
>about 400 years
I mean we already took their land and they are dying out, no need to worry about them coming back and start shit about it.
flash flooding I think
Only in the bottom of a wash
Poor native Americans, my lector said it's only about 1000 of them left in USA, the rest are mestizos.
>mestizos
>north of old Mexico
>in Alaska
I'm sure they suffer through that and had prepared for it, but we know so little of them besides whatever we could gather from archaeological record that wasn't fucked over during the 1800's when everyone and their grandmother started to dig out shit to sell (and still do, worked with a tribal leader who patrolled/slept on an archaeological site with a revolver because rednecks steal shit to sell because they think it is their history and the native americans are all dead).
However there are some instances of cities being destroy by bad rain seasons.
>1000
probably closer to 100,000
In all of the Americas, maybe.
It's quite hard to find full blooded amerindians due to the iberian policy of "fuck everything in sight" and the british policy of "you're either white or native, but not both mate, fuck off"
>It's quite hard to find full blooded amerindians
I just went and found my mom
it wasn't that hard
>Native Americans were nomadic
missisipians & puebloans were not
Who really knows the exact number, im sure its more than 1000, but how state/federal government recognize tribes is a fucking mess, specially when you are dealing with land/water access issues and some people claiming to be 1/10 native american just for financial benefits. It really is a mess trying to untangle all those years of fucking them over.
why are you guys learning about them? Weirdest place to learn about them would be Latvia.
Navajo nation is the largest with 350,000 members. Im certain more than 1/350th of them are full blooded. And thats just one tribe
People just like to pretend they were completely bred out or killed
Blessed Michigan
There is many people who are predominantly amerindian especially in guatemala andes & the amazon