r/nextfuckinglevel 4d ago

Mexican 'cowboy' stopped armed robbery

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u/spottie_ottie 4d ago

Why stop there if we're going back in time? All the horses in the Americas descended from horses the conquistadors brought with them when they were plundering the continent

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u/Pirate-Angel 3d ago

Horses lived in the Americas, then went extinct thousands of years ago. The indigenous at the time of Spanish colonization had no familiarity with them.

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u/Pirate-Angel 2d ago

*No first-hand familiarity.