There would be a lot of butterflies.
If anything, the Turks wouldn't be able to take Constantinople which kickstarted the age of exploration
Actually about the armour, I read/heard a couple times that conquistadores often replaced their armour with the woven armours of the americans because the lack of protection was completely overbalanced by the ease of use.If we were to list the advantages that the Europeans vis-à-vis Native Americans during the conquest of the New World, I'm not sure I'd place gunpowder in the top five. Off the top of my head, disease, iron weapons and armor, and horses were each a more important advantage.
If you read Bernal Diaz's primary account, who was himself was a conquistador under Cortes during the conquest of Mexico, this is correct.Actually about the armour, I read/heard a couple times that conquistadores often replaced their armour with the woven armours of the americans because the lack of protection was completely overbalanced by the ease of use.
Canons were a good shock weapons in the early stages, it does make noise.
BUt yeah, diseases and horses (kinda linked as well). Hard to resist cavalry charges when 80% of your line is dead of smallpox and other nasty things
If we were to list the advantages that the Europeans vis-à-vis Native Americans during the conquest of the New World, I'm not sure I'd place gunpowder in the top five. Off the top of my head, disease, iron weapons and armor, and horses were each a more important advantage.
I don't know enough about the Conquistadors, but didnt the Aztecs and Incas live up mountains? How did horses work there?
The Aztecs did not; while there are certainly mountains throughout Central Mexico, the cities of Mesoamerica were typically in the lowlands, and, in the case of the Aztecs, clustered in the Valley of Mexico, around the (now-drained) Lake Texcoco the Inca did, but the Inca had already developed one of the most impressive road systems in the world.I don't know enough about the Conquistadors, but didnt the Aztecs and Incas live up mountains? How did horses work there?
If the Chinese had never accidentally discovered gunpowder, what would the effect of its lacking be on the European invasion of the Americas?
Someone else would have discovered it; gunpowder is one of those things that is'nt just going to go undiscovered, indeed it may end-up being discovered later in Asia as well as in Europe, which could lead to a more dominant Europe (the Chinese did'nt use gunpowder in warfare very much for centuries).
If we were to list the advantages that the Europeans vis-à-vis Native Americans during the conquest of the New World, I'm not sure I'd place gunpowder in the top five. Off the top of my head, disease, iron weapons and armor, and horses were each a more important advantage.
I don't know if that statement is correct but given the low number of spaniards compared to their native allies, that can't have had that much weightReader347 said:I'd add teamwork as a multiplier, too. The Aztecs got status (their goal) through individually capturing prisoners to feed the gods. The Spanish goal was to kill their opponents, and they'd gang up on the individual warriors while the Aztecs were trying to drag a Spaniard away as captive.
Someone else would have discovered it; gunpowder is one of those things that is'nt just going to go undiscovered, indeed it may end-up being discovered later in Asia as well as in Europe, which could lead to a more dominant Europe (the Chinese did'nt use gunpowder in warfare very much for centuries).
There would be a lot of butterflies.
If anything, the Turks wouldn't be able to take Constantinople which kickstarted the age of exploration
I don't know if that statement is correct but given the low number of spaniards compared to their native allies, that can't have had that much weight
No cannon may mean less robust ship design as well