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Comment by delta_p_delta_x

> Unfortunately, the Native Americans did not invent it quickly enough

This is false. Most native Americans throughout both continents—especially those in Mesoamerica—were powerful civilisations in their own right with plenty of agricultural history.

What finished many of them off was a lack of resistance to smallpox, which was brought over by the first explorers/colonists.

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