Gender equality to Paul
Henry the VIIIth: really, Elizabeth is fine. You don’t need a son. Anne’s not screwing around on you. Settle down and quit worrying about your dick.
Not really a technology answer, but man-oh-man I’d like to say that to him.
Can I ask which Nation or tribe you’d give that information to? The Anasazi? The Aztecs? The Incas? The Algonquin peoples? The Carib indians? Of those listed, the only ones I wouldn’t expect to try to become continent wide conquistators would be the Incas. And I wouldn’t care to lay much of a wager on that. The other question is would the more conservative tribal nations be willing to move on to an urban or at least settled way of life, instead of trying to remain nomads anyways? In our history, it seemed to me that a lot of the plains indians tried to keep their traditional lifestyle alive, even past the point where it was obvious it couldn’t compete economically with the white man’s methods. (If a nation needs X hectares of land per person to maintain a nomadic lifestyle, and another nation needs X/100, or even less land - which nation is going to be the outnumbered minority, no matter how good their military technology, or warrior tradition.)
P.S. I’m not trying to pick on you Boyo Jim - it’s just you’ve raised a number of points this morning I find interesting. I hope there’s no rancor on your part for that.
And less gay bashing too.
No, not at all. Who knows, if a Native American tribe had swept over the continent with guns before Columbus, maybe they would have been the ones sailing east to Europe to look for new lands to conquer. Or maybe they would have shot the buffalo to extinction without any help from Buffalo Bill, and a lot earlier, and starved (or shot!) themselves down to a fraction of their polulation. Just interesting to think about – almost any change you might make could turn out to be beneficial or disastrous.
Exactly the same, or pretty close.
After all, smallpox, not bullets, was the most successful killer.
Back in 1914, I’d go to the International Committee of the Red Cross and tell them about my amazing “discovery”: a chemical first synthesized in 1874, Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane (or DDT, for short) will kill body lice on contact! Whatever other miseries and horrors of the “Great War”, the “cooties” that plagued both sides and caused vast numbers of deaths from disease would be vanquished.
Hyksos, I think.
Good idea, but if you want the idea to be adopted and not dismissed, I think something that will show it’s benefits faster would be better. I’d go with suggesting the idea of exposing people to cowpox as a means of preventing smallpox.
Ah. I hadn’t known that. Still, I wonder if they could have done more with it sooner if they had known about all the possibilities - even without electronics.
The Romans didn’t even demand that.
Apart from the loony tunes, emperors we’re usually deified on death and even then not automatically.
The first Flavian Emperor even joked on his death bed that he could feel himself becoming a god ie.he was dying.
I’m too much of a contrarian smartass. My first thought was to teach Non-Euclidian Geometry to Euclid.
What the hell…things are probably going to go Twilight Zone on me no matter what, so I’d just go ahead and give Alfred Nobel the idea for the atomic bomb.
(You thought Colonialism was bad the first time? 
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