>>69774126ok, justifying this anon's statement a bit
certain native American civilizations did have pretty advanced urban and societal structures. people often forget that the aztec's capital had a population of nearly 400,000 at its peak, bigger than london and Paris during the time period.
so yes, in some regards, certain native civlizations did rival europe.
however, as stated, native Americans were not monolithic. much of the more advanced civilizations in the Americas were in central america/south America (incas).
north america did have nations like the Iroquois (which was more of a bloc of tribes rather than a nation state) and the Mississippi civilizations (which had pretty sizeable cities of upwards to 50,000). however, none of these were... unified/centralized like the European states were at the time.
also hur durr Africa.
africa did have some pretty impressive nations, from the Aksum (predecessor to Ethiopia), the Mali, Songhai, Dahomey, Kongo, etc.
but the problems that natives Americans faced were also there for the africans. much of the coastal African nations adopted a slave trade based economy, which collapsed after slavery was banned in much of Europe in the early 19th century (nations like Dahomey and Kongo especially suffered). meanwhile, others failed to modernize due to lack of centralization, capital/resources to use to drive industrialization, etc.
