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Why did the native americans lose

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-24 16:14

I want an answer to this question beyond the euro centric view that "they lost cause they were backwards"

If anything pisses me off historically, it's that. It's not a concrete answer and summarizes it all up in a simple sentence, but there's more to the tale.

To say that the natives were backwards is bullshit. For one, they had canoes, that could maneuver the waters while the Europeans were stuck with shit boats that didn't move. Just because it isn't made out of iron doesn't mean it's not better. If anything, the natives were backwards when it came to weaponry, not everything else.

Darwin sez;strongest kicks the most ass and wins. Otherwise, the Natives developed their own societies as well. But why wasn't their weaponry as advanced? Why did they lose?

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-24 18:44

Europeans were genocidal maniacs with, unfortunately, more technology and a less human society and sent their DREGS to the New World to settle it.

They brought with them disease.

>>4 You are very wrong. Military tactics had naught to do with it; in fact, the Europeans were actually outmatched when it came to tactics, as the First Nations still had the upper hand in that department all the way into the conquest of the Seminole land by way of knowing how to survive where the Europeans did not and knowing how to surprise attacks.

They didn't "lose" because it wasn't a fight, it was a genocide.

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