What chicken breeds did Native Americans have?

[KristyHall]

They are finding more and more documentation that supports multiple migrations across the Pacific and trade across the Pacific at much later dates than "conventional wisdom" says happened.

Conventional wisdom also says that Native Americans did not have the wheel, when there is in fact a great deal of pre-Colombian archaeological evidence of wheels. They were not in widespread use, and the theories for this are wide ranging, but they were not unfamiliar with wheels. One of the preferred ideas is that pre-Colombian America did not have any draft animals that made the wheel a practical innovation.

Very true.
It is largely believed by modern researchers that the main reason why the wheel, large scale domestication of animals, and larger empires had not yet taken hold of the Americas is not because they were inferior people slower to develop, but because they had to overcome many geological and biological barriers that is in a greater presence of the Americas then was present of Eurasia. The Americas did not have as many animals that were good candidates for domestication as Eurasia, and most of the highest calorie agricultural foods started in central America, meaning the food had to spread north and across mountains, which takes generations for the plants to adapt.

This lack of available calories and beast of burden meant slower development of cultures who must put more time into basic survival rather than building a more complex society with enough calories to support non food producing members of society like artisans and bureaucrats.

 

[chickened]

actually certain tribes did have the wheel, and many had complex infrastructure including designated bathing, cooking, and waste disposal areas. how ever the wheel was rarely used because it wasn't needed, and it would have meant that large use of the wheel would mean putting extra man power into building and maintaining roads, which at the time were largely unecisary save for the most basic of trade routes..

You're right the Nez Perce had toys with wheels i believe. I think there were other objects that were circular in shape but I was really referring to the concept of the wheel and it's functionality. The Central American tribes did have structures that used wheels so maybe the northern Indians had no use for it really.

 

[KristyHall]

You're right the Nez Perce had toys with wheels i believe. I think there were other objects that were circular in shape but I was really referring to the concept of the wheel and it's functionality. The Central American tribes did have structures that used wheels so maybe the northern Indians had no use for it really.

basic carts were used for hauling goods over stone streets in the larger cities of central and south america from what I understand

 

[EweSheep]

Back to the part that Chickened was talking about the world was round in the Bible and again for Columbus' time. I remember reading sometime in Galileo's time that the religious group was saying the the world was flat. I thought Columbus perceived that the world is flat because in that time people thought if he sailed so far, he would "fall" off from the edge of the ocean.

And for the Thanksgiving bird, I would assume they may have had turkeys. But it was Abraham Lincoln that declared Thanksgiving as a holiday and Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey as a National bird but the Bald Eagle was the choice of the Americans. So turkeys were plentiful and with a large group coming together for feast, the turkey was an ideal choice of meat on the holidays because it took them less time to raise them to butcher than cattle.