Its the 14th century and you’ve had no time to prepare, after you’re done reading this post you are snapped. What do you do?

    • xylogx@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      If you could somehow inoculate them against smallpox you might have a fighting chance.

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      Europeans would show up and my Native American homies would be armed with cartridge rifles, six shooters and a crank rotary machine gun.

      I would try for better, but I think there just wouldn’t be the time for fine tooling more advanced fire arms would require. Even getting all that going before I croak is going to take a lot of ambition.

      Also assuming they don’t think I am some evil spirit that they quickly kill when I demand industrial metal facilities be constructed.

      Oh, they would probably also have penicillin before the white man, so that would be a major advantage.

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        If your argument is that humans can only be “native” to southeast Africa… that’s dumb. It might be defensible in an ecological sense but sociologically the word is used differently.