Now I want you to imagine the coolest weapon ever. Got it? Okay well, it's not the coolest weapon ever, It's actually a coconut bomb. I was just watching videos, but then I found a video about how to open a coconut without any tools. Which is here
Then I kept watching other videos about tools that could be made with coconuts, such as canteens, but then I found this great video about how to create Coconut grenades.
So I got wondering what the practicality of Coconut bombs would be in a place like Polynesian tribal, and sea warfare. I don't know the internals, but gunpowder is definitely a way, but if there is any other way to explode the coconut that the Polynesians could have before European exploration, then please tell me. So my questions are
Would they be effective in Combat? (With the huge explosion radius, and shattered shell)
Would the tribe, or empire that creates these coconut bombs, be like the Zulus of Polynesia? (If someone could find out where coconuts natively grow, so we could find if someone like the Hawaiian empire, Maori, or someone else would use Coconut grenades.
Could these grenade-like objects be used by Europeans in other wars? Or draw more interest in the hand held grenades?
And would it have any at all effect at all on colonization?
Discuss