We Know From Our Recent History That English Did Not Come To Replace U.s. Indian Languages Merely Because English Sounded Musical To Indians' Ears. Instead, The Replacement Entailed English-speaking Immigrants' Killing Most Indians By War, Murder, And Introduced Diseases, And The Surviving Indians' Being Pressured Into Adopting English, The New Majority Language.

-Jared Diamond

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We Know From Our Recent History That

Jared Diamond

We Know From Our Recent History That English Did Not Come To Replace U.s. Indian Languages Merely Because English Sounded Musical To Indians' Ears. Instead, The Replacement Entailed English-speaking Immigrants' Killing Most Indians By War, Murder, And Introduced Diseases, And The Surviving Indians' Being Pressured Into Adopting English, The New Majority Language.

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War

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Why Were There Far More Species Of Domesticated Animals In Eurasia Than In The Americas? The Americas Harbor Over A Thousand Native Wild Mammal Species, So You Might Initially Suppose That The Americas Offered Plenty Of Starting Material For Domestication.

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Mammals

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