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blackstampede@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

North America didn’t have horses, when they were brought in, the Apache, more than any other indigenous group, structured their entire way of life around them. Well at least that’s what I learned from Western movies.

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FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Interesting. I knew about the horses being non-native. But the Apache part not.

Is there something that made them more likely to benefit from being a horse-culture?

Living on Steppes and Plains?

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- piccolo@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Horses are native to the americas. They evolved here and spreaded to asia but went extict in america around the end of the ice age.
  
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  - WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    They evolved there and spreaded to asia but went extinct in america around the end of the ice age.
    
    They were too tasty for their own good.
    
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  - PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Would it be unfair to say the horses that were there are a different species than those imported by the Spanish?
    
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- Stamau123@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  They lived mostly in the southern Great plains, extending into the desert, so I imagine horses would be great for them
  
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- blackstampede@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  We have reached the limits of what I know on the subject. So, no idea. If forced to make an uneducated guess, I’d say it was probably some combination of environmental factors, a preexisting culture that fit particularly well with horses, and natural variation in adoption of new tech among different groups of people.
  
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