What if The U.S. Wasn't Colonized?

It's a well known fact that America became colonized around the 16th century when Western European explorers began to investigate and explore the "New World". Their main basis for establishing colonies was in order to discover resources or something known as "the three Gs"-Gold G-d and Glory." In other words they were trying to find resources and wealth in order to directly link these colonies to their continental empire. Iit was quite obvious that this European Expansion move was mainly for profit.

While cities clearly did not spring up overnight, founded towns eventually developed into large cities-but not until perhaps decades or even centuries later. Yet now I'd like to get to the topic at hand. What would the U.S. have been like if Western Europeans never arrived to colonize it. Would there even be cities today? What about industrialization? Perhaps there wouldn't even be any societies. Life would be totally different and unrecognizable and Native Americans would live their lives without any fear that the white man would arrive to completly destroy the world as they knew it-or at least their land.

Several cartoons have made a few small gags about this. Basically New York City would be shown-however because Native Americans lived there before anybody else did, the cityscape of tall,stately skyscrapers and appartment buildings would suddenly be replaced by rows and rows of teepees.( A rather obvious stereotype) Let's be more realistic, though because obviously it would not be Teepee City-or even a city at all. In fact, if the White man never showed up in North America to colonize it I doubt there would ever be any cities-or at least the kind that we recogized today. Native Americans in general lived in communities or tribes. These tribes were very close with one another and regarded one another as their kin-even if they weren't biologically related by blood. They were generally peaceful individuals-although once in a while there would be war with other Native American tribes,and "Nations." If America still belonged to the Native Americans I dare to believe that despite life being perhaps more simple, without industrialism or technology such as televisions and cars, it would be perhaps a closer and maybe even better place. Native Americans depended upon the forest for food, medicine and shelter, yet they never abused the resources that nature offered them. They never completely demolished forests or drove animals to extinction. Native Americans would never waste what they had killed-if a bison was killed, they would use all of it-bones, organs, everything had a use-unlike how American hunters would merely shoot the animal for its skin, horns, maybe its meat, but leave the rest of the poor animal behind to rot. Also, they always killed more than they needed, unlike Native Americans. Everyone within a tribe would know one another too, unlike in a city in which there are societies but no communities. Keep in mind that I'm really thinking outside the box these days. Perhaps this means that we could survive without cities. Life would be totally different but it would be the only life that we would know-as Native Americans of course. If Western Europeans never colonized America, we'd all be Native Americans-maybe from various tribes and nations but Native Americans Nevertheless.


Anyhow, here is a link regarding Native Americans. There is a lot of interesting information such as their culture, and various tribes. http://www.nativeamericans.com/