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This is my frist thread so sorry about it
what would of happen if the American Indians held back the Europeans?
what would of happen if the American Indians held back the Europeans?
Welcome to the Board. You may wish to contact the user Atom. He is quite knowledgeable about Native Americans.This is my frist thread so sorry about it
what would of happen if the American Indians held back the Europeans?
This is my frist thread so sorry about it
what would of happen if the American Indians held back the Europeans?
It depends on how they do it, and who does it. If you suggest some kind of complete/or almost so absence of Europeans, then that is highly unlikely, to say the least. If a group manages to hold them off, then thats much more likely. I think the Southwest might be a good place for that, or the Andes.This is my frist thread so sorry about it
what would of happen if the American Indians held back the Europeans?
Welcome to the Board. You may wish to contact the user Atom. He is quite knowledgeable about Native Americans.
But there strength was base doff easier acces to Dutch/British guns, and Confederacies was fairly widespread among various other northeastern tribes.I've always liked the Haudenosaunee.
Its Dale Cozort!I did a book of scenarios where the Indians do significantly better at holding off the Europeans. It's called American Indian Victories. It's available at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble.com, etc.
When does this happen exactly? Because if they can still get a large group of Indians supporting them, they ,might be in a tenable position, although that seems unlikely.In my book I did actually come up with a couple of ways where Indians very much like ours might have been able to survive a European invasion intact. They both involve diseases. One of them involves a disease that quickly jumps from a New World host species to horses and causes the vast majority of them to quickly die. It would have no impact on Indians, thus the same cultures form, but really scuppers the Europeans, at least for a while. Conquistadors without horses really don't work well at all.
I can't believe it would be virulent enough or widespread enough to stop all European expansion.The other one involves a nasty autoimmune disease called Lockjoint that only Europeans are susceptible to and only if they venture into the New. How would that work? A benign disease develops in the New World and lodges in cartilage to hide from the immune system. It's not harmful in and of itself so Indians harbor it with no problem. Thing is, to an immune system it looks like smallpox. If someone has smallpox antibodies those antibodies go nuts trying to get rid of it, and in the process destroy the body's joints, leaving them helpless cripples. So any European who has been exposed to smallpox and is then exposed to LockJoint dies. European colonies in the New World are impossible until the Europeans understand diseases well enough to stop a disease like that, which would be postponed by slower development in Europe due to not having New World resources available.