Posted by:
axeldc
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Date: May 17, 2012 09:06AM
Pick up a Canadian coin and see Elizabeth II. Brazil and all Spanish America was ruled by Kings into the 19th C.
There are lots of anachronisms in the Book of Mormon. Steel swords, chariots (no wheeled vehicles in W. Hemisphere), horses (makes chariots hard) existed here before the ice age and after the Spanish brought them, but for 10,000 years there were no horses here. Of course, JS would not know that, because wild horses were common in the early 19th C. America.
Here is an entire wikipedia article dedicated to BoM anachronisms:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anachronisms_in_the_Book_of_Mormon