And quoted Jane and Daniel...
>
> > > As for alternative parallells, I have always thought
> > > of the praxians beings somewhat like the nomad peoples
> > > of central Asia (kazak, kirghiz, turkmen etc) rather
> > > than native americans.
> > Me too. Mainly of course because they're more familiar, but also because
> > they *did* invade civilised parts, and very effectively, too. Native
> > Americans had the disadvantage of having an ocean in the way.
>
> I'm glad I'm not only one who made this old world
> chauvinist "mistake" for familiarity reasons.
>
I seem to recall that the Aztecs invaded a civilized Mexico; Olmecs and Toltecs and all that.
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