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submitted 11 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/historymemes@lemmy.world

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[–] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Me with a time machine:

[–] Zementid@feddit.nl 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Imagine the Europeans met a significantly further developed native civilisation .. Like steam engine level. That would have been interesting.

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson. Minus the Europeans, mind.

[–] lugal@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

The Europeans didn't have the man power to defeat the Aztec Empire that fast but as an empire, the Aztecs made enemies and all these enemies united with the Europeans to defeat their common enemy, not knowing what would come next. Similar stories in north America with some first nations allying with the Europeans against their old enemies.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 2 points 11 months ago

The natives knew that.
But there was basically nothing they could do. The pox depopulated the continent so fast that the white colonists often encountered only remnants of destroyed civilizations wherever they arrived.