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I am one of the first indoeuropeans to have tamed the horse on the steppes and, having ridden out, find that everyone else can be conquered by my tribe. Why doesn't anyone else have an animal comparable to the horse?
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Were the indoeuropeans who tamed the horse just lucky enough to tame it when they did or was there a reason that the steppe was ideal for that? If the horse had been in africa would everyone have ridden horses right out of the gate?
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While there are any number of cases where Europeans brought diseases to the lands they colonized, did they ever get deadly infectious diseases from the indigenous peoples of those lands? If not, why not?
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Why did it take humanity as long as it did to figure out aerodynamics and use it to create balloon and airplane-style flight?
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