Actually the earliest people in the Americas did have horses available, but they used them as a source of food not as "beasts of burden", this hunting drove the American horses into extinction.
Without "beasts of burden" the people of the Americas used either dogs or had to carry loads themselves. In South America the llamas (relatives of camels) were domesticated as "beasts of burden".
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Actually the earliest people in the Americas did have horses available, but they used them as a source of food not as "beasts of burden", this hunting drove the American horses into extinction.Without "beasts of burden" the people of the Americas used either dogs or had to carry loads themselves. In South America the llamas (relatives of camels) were domesticated as "beasts of burden".
D. L. Moody
From the 16th to the 19th centuries, an estimated 12 million Africans were shipped as slaves to the Americas.
The effect of movement of early people is that the world's population grew.
African slaves were first used in the Americas in Jamestown in the early 1600s but slavery has been around for thousands of years including Africa