The Puritans didn't have ships, the English did.

At the time the Puritans were being kicked out of England.

Whites = guns

Indians = bow and arrow

Ew,

You didn't use the guns argument, holy crap.

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Dude, do you know how worthless early muskets were?

Rifles were good, but muskets were a waste of resources..

And by the time y'all got rifles we had them too.

It was still a technological innovation that paved the way for modern firearms

How about some BIOLOGICAL WARFARE!!

Because cunts gotta cunt

It wasn't a good technology though. Bows were vastly superior to muskets. They fired and reloaded faster, were easy to make, quiet, and hit their mark better.

Yeah, biological warfare is the actual reason colonists were able to do what they did.

Actually it wasn't warfare until well into colonization.

I know at the time they were good but as the 1800s came around they became outdated

Initially it was just diseased spaniards.

And pigs.

Because you know the Indian Wars of 1800s

High IQ take = Indians were xenophobic towards the European refugees, and needed to open their borders!

Muskets weren't good. They took a lot to make, their ammo was harder to manufacture than arrows, they took a minute to reload compared to a quicker reload of a bow, they were inaccurate, loud making ambushes impossible with them and they took more maintnance

GG @Ishkode, you just advanced to level 9!

Also, we did welcome European refugees.

Frankly it was a mistake though.

Yeah and it will be a mistake to open our borders again

Well I shouldn't say that,

Some WERE good.

Your people already know what open borders mean

The French were great and so were some Celts.

The Anglos less so but even a few of them dribbled in.

Trail of tears

Trail of Tears wasn't open borders, it was an issue of anglos

The French didn't cause much trouble in contrast.

And other tribes were pretty good to each other in this region.

Compared to Europe or Asia at least.

Tbh, the French was busy dealing with basically everything else

Yeah but different tribes genocided each other before white people came over

It wasn't that, they just kind of respected us more than Anglos did.

Theya ctually helped unify the tribes in the area

No bc they had the French Revolution going on