Well maybe, but your natives were much more obviously settled than ours, you could identify their settlements and they had some sort of leadership structure, whereas there weren't any settlements in Australia the people were nomadic and left a very small footprint on the landscape. You can't fault the settlers for thinking the land belonged to no one they had never met a society like this where everything is in common. It's sort of like the difference between capitalism and communism. We still have problems with the thinking of the aboriginals here and we did when they decided that our livestock were available for food

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well maybe, but your natives were much more obviously settled than ours, you could identify their settlements and they had some sort of leadership structure, whereas there weren't any settlements in Australia the people were nomadic and left a very small footprint on the landscape. You can't fault the settlers for thinking the land belonged to noone they had never met a society like this where everything is in common. It's sort of like the difference between capitalism and communism. We still have problems with the thinking of the aboriginals here and we did when they decided that our livestock were available for food

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Not all or even most of the American Indians build permanent structures... The Navajo are the best known that did using Adobe (The Aztec, Inca and Mayans were not in North America.)... but most of the others were nomadic not unlike your aborigines

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Not all or even most of the American Indians build permanent structures....The Navajo are the best known that did using Adobe (The Aztec, Inca and Mayans were not in North America.)....but most of the others were nomadic not unlike your aborigines

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I think there is a vast difference with the stage of development, I would have put your native americans as about ten thousand years ahead of our aboriginals and in any case your continent afforded a native people greater resources. The best anyone could hope for here was subsistence until european methods were introduced

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I think there is a vast difference with the stage of development, I would have put your native americans as about ten thousand years ahead of our aboriginals and in any case your continent afforded a native people greater resources. the best anyone could hope for here was subsistence until european methods were introduced

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That's entirely possible...