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Yeah, if you've studied history long enough, you know that these "eras" that we divide history into are about as fuzzy as all-get out. This is why I'm very much against the idea that the march of time leads to "progress." There is a pattern to history, but it's a lot more complicated than the...

So I was right that "Stone Age" is a descriptive term referring to what most of the tools were made out of at that time, rather than some kind of normative force of history that prevents you from making tools out of anything other than stone.

You have it backwards though. Being in the Stone Age doesn't make you incapable of making nukes. Rather, being incapable of nukes is what causes you to be labeled "Stone Age." Actually, the "tech tree" model is true in a simplified sense. More advance technologies and sciences depend on...

I mean.. how does being in “an age” prevent technology from being invented?

So you think their civilizations collapsed before the Europeans set foot on the continent?

Thank you for the recommendation then.

No problem. I just wish the Church had the chance to Christianize their empire at their prime. It could have been grand.

Like I said, they were in the post-apocalyptic stage of heir civilization.

I would say you are correct. I remember reading somewhere that the Europeans brought over a huge amount of animal borne diseases to the continent of North America, such that by the time the Americans began conquering America, most of who was left was the survivor of epidemics of apocalyptic...

I never understood why Americans would appropriate a label (Nazi) owned by German National Socialists. I get why the Left calls people they don't like Nazis, but why would you associate with Hitlerism if you're an American nationalist? Doesn't make sense.