• Nakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    While some of this could be misconstrued as a noble savage trope, they really did have many novel forms of agriculture that were far advanced beyond European practices in terms of sustaining populations at scale.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Simply acknowledging a concrete difference in practices isn’t a “noble savage” trope. Different civilizations often have different levels of advancement in different areas.