The fact that ideas traveled both ways between Americas and Europe during colonization, yet this barely figures in our understanding of colonization, is striking; we treat idea transfer as one-way (Guns, Germs, and Steel model) despite 200 years of cultural contact and intellectual exchange.
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Aaron BastaniEvidence Quote
“we took about 200 years and yet that barely figures in our in our understanding of the exploitation and the colonization of the Americas it’s seen as purely one way in terms of ideas in terms of capital and humans”
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Everything We Think We Know About Early Human History is Wrong | David Wengrow on Downstream— Novara MediaCreated: 8/12/2026, 6:30:32 PM
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