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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Bowman" data-source="post: 7473220" data-attributes="member: 6925649"><p>I don't understand why you think it would have to be a culture that existed in 1450 AD, it would be similar to expecting that one of the cultures that existed at the time of Alexander the Great would be the dominant one today. The United States of America didn't exist at the time of Alexander the Great and nobody back then would have predicted that a nation from a continent which hadn't been discovered yet would have been the dominant one.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Lets just say that the Indians are a little more scientific in their outlook, yes I know that sounds strange, but people do change over two and a quarter millennia. Indians haven't abandoned religion all together, but their religion now is more philosophical rather than nature-oriented.</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>They can be on whatever side they choose, neither side is entirely good or entirely bad, The Indians think they are doing a good thing by bringing these primitive savage Old Worlders into the light, and they don't always understand why some of them are so hostile to all the improvements to their daily living that they bring. The Indians see all this wilderness area in Europe and plentiful game, and they imagine chopping down the trees and building farms, and some of the hunter gatherers in Europe don't like Indians clearing their hunting grounds and fencing them in.</p><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p>So I guess you've never read stories about Daniel Boone or Davy Crockett, or about people colonizing the frontier and having to fight savages to protect their families. I guess you don't like Westerns either, the basic idea is that of two cultures in conflict, one culture has learned one way of living while the other pursues a different way which comes in conflict with the first. The reason "why Indians" is because they are physically isolated from the rest of the World and so they can have a different technological level from the rest of the World, and it creates an interesting conflict between these two cultures when they finally do meet. I do think the Egyptians are tough bastards and are not likely to be as easily swept aside just because the Indians have gunpowder weapons.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thomas Bowman, post: 7473220, member: 6925649"] I don't understand why you think it would have to be a culture that existed in 1450 AD, it would be similar to expecting that one of the cultures that existed at the time of Alexander the Great would be the dominant one today. The United States of America didn't exist at the time of Alexander the Great and nobody back then would have predicted that a nation from a continent which hadn't been discovered yet would have been the dominant one. Lets just say that the Indians are a little more scientific in their outlook, yes I know that sounds strange, but people do change over two and a quarter millennia. Indians haven't abandoned religion all together, but their religion now is more philosophical rather than nature-oriented. They can be on whatever side they choose, neither side is entirely good or entirely bad, The Indians think they are doing a good thing by bringing these primitive savage Old Worlders into the light, and they don't always understand why some of them are so hostile to all the improvements to their daily living that they bring. The Indians see all this wilderness area in Europe and plentiful game, and they imagine chopping down the trees and building farms, and some of the hunter gatherers in Europe don't like Indians clearing their hunting grounds and fencing them in. So I guess you've never read stories about Daniel Boone or Davy Crockett, or about people colonizing the frontier and having to fight savages to protect their families. I guess you don't like Westerns either, the basic idea is that of two cultures in conflict, one culture has learned one way of living while the other pursues a different way which comes in conflict with the first. The reason "why Indians" is because they are physically isolated from the rest of the World and so they can have a different technological level from the rest of the World, and it creates an interesting conflict between these two cultures when they finally do meet. I do think the Egyptians are tough bastards and are not likely to be as easily swept aside just because the Indians have gunpowder weapons. [/QUOTE]
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