USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Llamas were the only domesticated animals in Latin America. Europeans brought horses, pigs, cattle, sheep.

Detailed explanation-2: -So, while Native Americans had plenty of good food crops available before 1492, they had few domesticated animals. The main ones, aside from llamas and alpacas, were dogs, turkeys, and guinea pigs. The introduction of horses made hunting buffalo much easier for the Plains Indians.

Detailed explanation-3: -While their wild relatives, the guanaco and the vicuña, have been determined to have diverged from their common ancestor two to three million years ago (Stanley et al., 1994; Wheeler, 1995; Fan et al., 2020), the domestic llama and alpaca are assumed to have been domesticated 6, 000 to 7, 000 years ago (Wheeler, 1995).

Detailed explanation-4: -The Incas domesticated the llama in the higher Andes mountains. During the Incan reign, breeding and production of this species were controlled by state llama herders and all animals were considered government property.