[learc83]

You can also look north the the Thule (Inuit) and Dorset cultures. The Thule expanded to Canada and Greenland in the middle ages, and in a very short time they completely wiped out the dominant Dorset culture that had existed for thousands of years.

The modern day Inuit are descendants of conquerors in exactly the same way that descendants of European settlers are.

[lamuerteflaca]

And I'm sure that if there were any Dorset left they too would still be cursing them for wiping them out.

[iaejpiejf23]

> The modern day Inuit are descendants of conquerors in exactly the same way that descendants of European settlers are.

Highly doubtful. The Dorset culture probably died off due to change in climate and their failure to adapt rather than inuits traveling hundreds or thousands of miles to kill the dorset.

Not to mention that these dorset was a tiny population already in significant decline.

There is a world of difference between the inuits and dorsets. Hell the norse and europeans were in contact with dorset long before the inuit. Perhaps it was european "disease" or raids that wipe them out...

Nobody really knows. But what we know is that they were a dying peoples long before the inuits came around.

[aminok]

The Dorset culture was spread all across Northern Canada and parts of Greenland. It was found in widely divergent latitudes, with different climates.

It's simply not plausible that such a widely dispersed culture would disappear in such a short time due to climate change.

Disease transmitted from Norse settlers/traders being the cause is also not plausible, as the Dorset disappeared first in the Western stretch of Northern N. America, where the Thule were expanding from, rather than the East, where they would have first had contact with the Norse. Competition from an invasive culture, the Thule, is the likely cause.