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Originally Posted by red-beard
The reality is the Spanish encountered a stone age culture. No wheel, beasts of burden, nor workings with anything but soft metal.
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Originally Posted by flatbutt
Since people were able to build pyramids with ropes, inclined planes and sheer muscle power I wouldn't be surprised by terra forming.
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Right. And Stone Age is true, but doesn't necessarily mean primitive (assuming primitive is taken to mean "no advanced thought, engineering ability, etc....").
Just because a civilization didn't have steel or certain specific technological advancements, didn't mean that they didn't have complex culture, language, mathematical concepts, engineering ability, etc....
Math and engineering don't require steel. Working with stone doesn't necessarily require steel implements. Ancient groups performed some pretty amazing feats with "primitive" tools, but, I think, lots of knowledge.
Just as there are folks that are born with off the charts physical abilities, music, visual art, linguistic, etc... there are, and, I suspect always have been folks that were born with a natural ability to think/reason far outside of the avg person's ability. I'm sure that just as there have been folks like Albert Einstein, Ben Franklin, and Leonardo da Vinci, I'm sure that ancient times also had similar folks that were able to do amazing things with the limited resources available to them. Just look at the pyramids, stonehenge, etc....