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12th Jul 2010

Why didn't The Americas have what the Europeans had at the time of conquest?

Diana O'Carroll

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We ask why the New World wasn't technologically as advanced as the Old World. Is this a valid question? Plus, we ask what the benefits of kissing might be.

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Why was the New World slower at developing technology?

Why is it when the Spanish came to "the New World" it was in a sort of "bronze age" (in general) as far as technology while Europe had Da-Vinci, the Renaissance, iron, guns etc. was it geography, religion, nutrition?

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