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Originally Posted by Carth
Exactly right Hugh.
Of course eventually, even without intervention from European countries, they too would have got their heads around large scale farming/ranching, railways & bridges, electricity, cotton, oil wells and the internal combustion engine
. . . . . and gunpowder.
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They might. On the other hand, civilisations in Asia, comparable to those of South America prior to European contact, managed not to invent any of those things for 1,000s of years. It is at least as likely that had these people remained isolated, they would be the same now as they were 500 years ago.