native ppl: these dudes are sickly, scurvied, and so pale they look like they’re about to die, we have to give them food
europeans: they bring us offerings! they must think we’re gods, probably
To be fair, this is looking more like late XVIII century man with advanced syphilis, but after looking some of late XV century portraits the point still somewhat stands anyway.
Why the fuck would you use Roman numerals?
I couldn’t give VIII fucks if he uses Roman numerals
Some Slavic languages, such as Russian, use Roman numerals for numbering centuries
Edit: why was this downvoted? If I’m wrong please tell me, I’d like to learn :)
Gets off the boat, gets out his gun: “Let me show you a magic trick!”
When men were men 🥰
Imagine a few days later everyone he got into contact with getting horribly sick and dying.
While that happened, and vice versa, this info often tries to whitewash USAs war on indigenous people, and systematic genocide to irradicate the “savage natives” https://www.history.com/news/native-americans-genocide-united-states
Both can be (and are) true, while the Europeans and later Americans did many things that would now be classified as genocide and ethnic cleansing, the majority of the native population simply died inadvertently of diseases. It’s actually unlikely that the Europeans would have been able to so thoroughly conquer the Americas if the native population would have survived the first wave of diseases.
This makes me think you did not read the full article and the timeline. Of course the indigenous people survived the first wave of diseases. The majority did not die out, This is why the colonizers were later fruatrated with the situation of trying to expand into more land. There are so many historic books about the systematic elimination of “Indians”. The diaease trope is what is taught in american school so we can feel detached from their ultimate demise. But if you don’t have time to search and read, just look at this wiki link on how many were genocided rather than the paltry few you think were left over from disease. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_of_Indigenous_peoples
Ok, I see we have run out of memes and are staring to repost everything again. Time to start new service guys.
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I mean, I’d be confused and concerned too if a time travelling European from the 18th century stepped off a boat in 1492
People genuinely do not understand history.
I think a good comedic example of this is in Futurama, where some characters from the year 3000 get tossed back to Roswell in 1947. They try to blend with “period correct clothes” and lingo, but since they’re 1000 years out of place, they’re combining things that hadn’t been invented yet with stuff from 1947s past.
A lot of people seem to think cleopatra was hanging out with the dudes who built the pyramids and think it’s weird Sparta and Rome never went to war. I mean, sure technically they both existed in an overlapping period of about 50 years, but technically the USA has had diplomatic contact with the Holy Roman Empire for a few years.
Imagine if a shuttle landed on the planet and someone from 2402 popped out with their neon implants, xarthan death spikes proudly displayed, and an onion on their belt. Everyone knows they don’t show up until at least 2215.
okay but after being at sea for months, tossing wildly in the waters & under scorching sun & suffering from scurvy, do you really think men were doing their hair and makeup before disembarking?
Its a wig, so thats taken care of.
