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minus-squareBigFig@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 months agoI’d love to go back in time and give them equal muskets and armor.
minus-squareSergio@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 months agoiirc the Spanish mostly won bc they had plenty of native allies who were enemies of the Aztecs.
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 months agoYeah Aztec hegemony was not well-liked. Shame how the Spaniards turned out. “Meet the new boss, same as the old…”
minus-squareAbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 months ago“… plus you all have smallpox now.”
minus-squarelimer@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoI read a book decades ago about an alternate earth where an Irish monk did just that, except he did not time travel. In that earth, the Americas were never overrun by Europeans
I’d love to go back in time and give them equal muskets and armor.
iirc the Spanish mostly won bc they had plenty of native allies who were enemies of the Aztecs.
Yeah Aztec hegemony was not well-liked. Shame how the Spaniards turned out. “Meet the new boss, same as the old…”
“… plus you all have smallpox now.”
I read a book decades ago about an alternate earth where an Irish monk did just that, except he did not time travel.
In that earth, the Americas were never overrun by Europeans