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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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨12⁩ ⁨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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  - Sineljora@sh.itjust.works ⁨50⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    Only if you’d say Native American humans are another species.
    
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  - piccolo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    I mean, if dogs get their own specie classification from their ancestor. Sure why not horses.
    
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Stamau123@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨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 ⁨16⁩ ⁨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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