Lafiel said:
yea, if native americans had had guns they might not have suffered genocide by european settlers |
If they had more guns it certaintly would of helped stopping that. However actually Native American's were on a HUGE decline before we ever even got there.
Little known fact but Native American populations used to be so large that some climate scientists think that it was their development of North America that caused the medievil warming period, as they deforested too much of North America causes an increase in global temperatures.
The vikings and I think a couple other civilizations tried to settle America way before then and the Native Americans kicked there ass.
By the time the English and French got there they had been horribly wiped out by some great plague or another, and settlers were shocked at how there just seemed to be huge swarths of land that were just made for settlement. (but empty.)
The Native American populations had died off due to great diseases as well as droughts... caused by their own rapid deforestation of North America.