Paul’s Reviews > Native Nations: A Millennium in North America > Status Update

It’s cool that the natives saw Europeans and decided they were gonna manipulate them for help. You never see talk about how they dominated political spaces

It’s crazy how you never think of decentralization as intentional w native Americans even though you do everywhere else

No way equivalent exchange was da law of da land. Fullmetal Alchemist. Fullmetal Alchemist.

It’s actually crazy that the decentralized North American cities were the same size as cities in Europe but they painted this picture that the small community civs were so primitive compared to the still urban Central American and European cities

It’s interesting that the fall of the Huhugam is directly lore connected to the rise of the O’odham. It’s interesting how all over people redefine themselves culturally and separate themselves based on changes to society at large, even to the point where an old culture is considered ancient to a new one.

This is something I always have to remind myself not to subscribe to. Theres no one set pathway of civilization. So cool Native Americans in many instances went straight to democracy.

And then the Black Warrior group was more like Houston. Just a collection of big ass suburbs.

These city models are all so different and so stark in contrast to what existed in the more recent American history it’s gonna be interesting to see why they collapse. I wonder if it’s more environmental or intentional.

I’m also interested in whether the environment is what gave rise to these structural differences

And then you have Cahokia which is the total opposite - it’s actually crazy how European it is in organization. I wonder how and why independent fear based centralized systems sprung up so commonly in such isolated and separate areas.

Huhugam were cool af; a decentralized massive cultural group that urbanized in response to environmental change and spurned by religious fervor and even still they didn’t enslave people. Fweakin cool