The Importance Of Gunpowder Weapons In America

What the Native American Governments might have become if the Europeans never interfered. In the 1400’s the Aztecs started to quickly expand and making the conquered vassals. However, the Spanish would quickly conquer them using more advanced weapons, and the diseases brought over from Europe would plague the natives destroying society so. So then, what would’ve happened, if Europeans never sailed across the Atlantic or never existed? It is reasonable to assume that given time they might have formed a more complex and modern government, although unlikely. For one thing, without Spanish involvement there is no reason the Incan and Aztec could not continue expanding. It is likely to happen considering the importance of the Yucatan peninsula for trade, it be the next target. That is if the Aztec Empire didn’t collapse or start to lose power. One of the things exploited by the Spanish was resentful vassals inside the Aztec Empire, whether in a few centuries or decades a collapse would’ve happened eventually. Assuming the …show more content…
Gunpowder weapons in the Americas would be even more effective due to the lack of animals such as horses, so they would replace other weapons much faster. Trains, Bicycles, and Cars will also have a much bigger impact when invented in the Americas for the same reason Gunpowder weapons are more effective. Due to not having pack animals and horses the change after these inventions will dramatically change warfare, and politics. Even with the printing press, without animals such as horses, spreading information and news from one place to another would be slow, so when faster means of transportation such as trains, bicycles, and cars, are invented it will probably cause a sudden wave of liberal revolts and unrest. It is because of this, such inventions will most likely be banned for as long as possible as the remaining monarchs try to prevent these