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Coming into contact with a British person would probably be like coming in contact with an Alien so we would probably be all freaked out / amazed by him. lol
Ah! But we wouldn't be here either! (unless you're First nations, of course lol)
it would be ike 200 years ago, but would we have radio / tv / internet then ? that would be weird to be able to see the world without actually moving anywhere.
We can put a man on the moon and he can look down and see other continents, that we can't get to? Oh, wait, going to the moon would be transportation. OK, we can send unmanned satellites into orbit, sending back camera images of other continents, and we would speculate for centuries about whether those continents have life on them or not.
It's easy to speculate about what life would be like before superequine transport speeds. Just read books that were written in the pre-superequine era, written by people like Tolstoy and Conrad and Melville. That's what life would be like.
What do you think the World would look like today if man never invented transportation, besides his own feet for moving about? No boats, planes, autos or even the wheel. Maybe animal travel, but that's all.
Would the people of the world be as mixed as they are now?
Would our customs / religions be not as similar as now?
I guess humans would be living in much the same way that the great apes do in the wild.
I guess humans would be living in much the same way that the great apes do in the wild.
I am not an expert on the Americas before the Europeans came, but I believe that the Aztec, Mayan and Inca societies, to name the most well known, had settled agriculture, cities, mathematics and monumental architecture, all without the wheel and apparently even a writing system. However they apparently had river transportation (canoes) and I have read somewhere about some boat travel in the Caribbean region.
Someone please correct me if I am wrong on any of those points and feel free to elaborate.
In any case, I believe these societies of the Americas come closest to what the OP is getting at.
Recently I saw a movie about what the world looked like before commercial aviation which is not that long ago (just over a 100 years ago). Most people didn't get that far away from their homes and people that did leave it was usually a one way trip meaning they never returned to the place that they originated from.
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