Mesoamericans didn't know about whe--

subsaharan africans had the cow.

Ankoe-Watsui

The Sami domesticated reindeer.

North American Natives have no excuse about how they didn't domesticate the American Bison.

what animals did yurops domesticate?

>trying to domesticate buffalo
livescience.com/33870-domesticated-animals-criteria.html

tl;dr they don't have the right temperament for it, otherwise the white Americans would have domesticated them

it is simply a matter of time and having a large enough population to select from.

the easiest bison calves to capture will be the ones most likley to be produce a domesticated line. you just keep selecting for the most timid and compliant calves of your captive population.

kind of hard to capture a bison without, you know, horses.

And they obviously tried but it didn't work. If you're using Llamas and you see an animal waaay bigger and stronger, you're going to try to domesticate it, the llama proves that mesoamericans at least tried so it's not a stretch to assume they tried and it didn't work, and you can talk "what ifs" all you want but white people couldn't make it work on a grand scale either

>The Sami domesticated reindeer.
Sami are shit-tier whites and don't have a civilization.

>it is simply a matter of time and having a large enough population to select from.
there's 500,000 of them

there are more Bison in the world than there are Asain Elephants so population is no longer a problem.

its not like plains indians needed to domesticate them there were maybe 2 or 3 million Indians living in the U.S. and Canada, but there were said to be over 60 million bison before the 1800's.
people domesticated livestock so they would have a ready source of meat, but there were so many bison out there all they had to do was wait for the ground to rumble.

can you make a cat do tricks?

those fuckers even can't respond to a name.

> a llama is a shit replacement for a horse Smaller, weaker, can't really make good cavalry or pack animals out of them.
Llamas are great pack animals, even more so in mountainous terrain. There really is no alternative to them, even to this day in some cases.

> Racists need to stop bringing up zebras and llamas like they were even remotely comparable to horses and oxen and the like
As a whole package, llamas and alpacas are to superior to any other domisticated animal, you fool.

but that's retarded. They're small and weak and can't support human weight well like a horse can, they can't pull a fraction of the weight an oxen can. They might be good for mountain paths but they're inferior in every other capacity.

but the incans were a mountain civ

*blocks your path*

It's pretty much just
>they understood the concept of the wheel, but didn't utilize it much based on factors specific to them

The Mesoamericans had different environmental factors and obstacles to surmount, and therefore did things a bit differently. Why people think it's a valid assessment to match up every single aspect to European development when making judgments about their civilization is beyond me.

This
>region is full of mountains, rainforest and jungles
>no horses to pull chariots

How would one see usefulness of the wheel, given these factor

>inb4 you can pull your chariots with capibaras

if you give them coca to chew they will carry anything

coked human bean > llama

If they had horses they would have met and the two would have mutually benefitted from each others ideas. Could have kickstarted an iron age in the americas.

They practiced animal husbandry with them.