Copy, fake, overtake! The rest of the world would be better off if they followed our lead.
Japan - Beating the white man at his game since 1905!
Copy, fake, overtake! The rest of the world would be better off if they followed our lead.
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Japan - Beating the white man at his game since 1905!
The reasons why are unimportant, and "primitive" is not a criticsm.Or you can just say what they are specifically like "lithic culture"
Every group doesn't have the chance of having Neolithic middle eastern people give them everything from genetics, language, live stock, boating tradition, writing, and religion like Europeans.
A better example to use would be the Seminole Wars. The Seminole actually held out amazingly well despite being massively outnumbered, and cost the US no small amount of money in fighting them. Of course the Seminole had guns and lived in semi-tropical jungle and swampland, so they had lots of advantages the Aborigines wouldn't.Neither of which are even remotely relevant. That's leaving aside the facts that the U.S. did not invade North Vietnam, and defeated all North Vietnamese attempts to invade South Vietnam, until the U.S. public was persuaded to abandon the war.
Japan - Beating the white man at his game since 1905!
In no way applicable to the Eora of Sydney in 1788.
They'd have too take on farming and livestock before mining iron to make the nails to build the sailing ships. Perhaps if the First Fleet landed at Portland Victoria and come into contact with the thousands Gunditjimara living 9 months of the year in the improved wetlands of the Condah swamp they might have been pushed back, but not in Sydney.
Just a slight note on naval tech: in the Indian Ocean, most ships were built without nails but with rope made from coco fiber to link the planks together.
I'll admit I don't know much about what they could have done, but the lack of nails wasn't that much of a hurdle to build ships.
In no way applicable to the Eora of Sydney in 1788.
They'd have too take on farming and livestock before mining iron to make the nails to build the sailing ships.
That is true, but we do see battles won by those ships, especially if there's enough of them or if they can go hand to hand.While I take your point, Indian Ocean ships were routinely destroyed by European ships from the 15th century through the 18th, in part for this reason...
I think with this kind of numbers and weapons you would need a coalition of at least 10 times that number to even have a chance to defeat the colonists. Which would devastate their numbers. Also any survivors that manage to escape will tell Britain and they will retaliate with force. If they capture any colonists and much of the supplies will have disease pathogens that will kill at least 50% to 95% of those that did not die. Add in the chaos that will occur, you could have maybe a sixth of what was there pre-contact.But that's not the case in Sydney in 1788, the First Fleet had 245 Marines and the HMS Supply with 4 x 3-pdrs, 4 x 12-pdr and HMS Sirius with 4 × 6pdrs, 6 × 18pdr, not to mention another 1100 people in the colony. I think that if the Eora were interested enough to get upset they would struggle to defeat this armed force and then wipe out a population that most likely exceeded theirs.
If they capture any colonists and much of the supplies will have disease pathogens that will kill at least 50% to 95% of those that did not die.
Even if you have numbers, you need men conditioned for pitched battle to close in to hand to hand and kill the English. Zulu were exactly that so British had to resort to using anti cavalry tactics against them funny enough. Attacking a force of that size.. That is absolutely different level of organization that is needed.
Ignore 1945 it was just only a minor steback![]()
Japan - Beating the white man at his game since 1905!