North American Cultural Characteristics

Based on the examination of the major cultural characteristics of populations in North America prior to European contact, these societies were just as advanced as their European counterparts such as Spain. North America, an unknown continent to the rest of the world until 1492, thrived for centuries on its own with its advancements and discoveries in technology, like the irrigation system, languages, such as Algic, and religions created by native people and practiced by countless tribes within the continent. Even with little connection to others outside of their tribes, the people of North America were able to create civlizationations and organize a way of life based on only the knowledge that was passed down and the knowledge they were accumulating
on their own. Dense populations and complex civilizations such as the Aztec and Incan civilizations were located on the southern tip of North America. The increase in interest of corn growing and agriculture allowed for the development of an advanced irrigation system and centralized Aztec and Incan nation-states. Corn was a major advancement for the some of the earliest Americans because it turned the hunters-and-gatherers into farmers and allowed people to settle and create civilizations and no longer be nomadic. However, being hunters-and-gatherers Native Americans had a greater appreciation for nature and was never saw a need to forcefully change it whereas Europeans had the desire to manipulate nature aggressively. Europeans only saw the money and products they could make out of nature and the environment whereas Early North Americans saw the beauty in nature and respected it so the natural resources it was providing for them were always there, making these North American societies mentally wiser and more advanced than their European counterparts.
North America is a continent that started from scratch just like Europe and the other 5 continents, however it developed on its own for centuries before anyone knew it was there.
It was allowed to prosper because of the many sophisticated civilizations and its many advancements made culturally prior to any European contact. An example is the Iroquois who created an approximation to the great nation-states of Mexico and Peru where the Iroquois Confederacy developed the political and organizational skills to sustain a robust military alliance that scared neighbors, Native Americans and Europeans for well over a century. North Americans were actually seen as threat to the Europeans at a point in time meaning they must have been equally as advanced as their European counterparts to afflict a sense of fear over them. Incan, Mayan and Aztec people built sophisticated civilizations and cities without simple technology such as the wheel or heavy draft animals which led them to use their resources and surroundings to create, learn, and perform new methods and ways to complete tasks. The Mayan civilization in Mexico, which would later become a part of the Aztec Empire, actually developed a writing system, had a complex calendar, built huge pyramids, and developed the concept of zero along with many other astronomical and mathematical observations hundreds of years before anyone in the Old World had. Through studying crucial cultural characteristics of North America prior to European contact Native Americans were developing civilizations and becoming more advanced and discovering new things which is what their European counterparts were doing as well making them equally advanced if not more due to America's development of major history changing things like the complex calendar and concept of
zero.