The Sioux: How about a Trial of Tears, pilgrim?

Yuripeen.

Some germs and virus can survive outside of a host long enough to be carried by the wind or water. So unless they're not breathing or drinking they'll liable to get some infection.

Native 'Muricans, fuck yeah!

Americas had only corn and llamas so the development was slower there

The Americas also had varieties of squash, beans, amaranth, potato and several other crops that could be cultivated, stored and eaten. A lot of those fell out of favor because of colonialism. The lack of animal traction made the european style of farming a lot more labor intensive, but a number of native american communities simply didn't need them.

Outside of Central America and the Andean side of South America, there were no "great powers", but hundreds of small, independent groups. It's a lot easier to deal with a village that cannot call for reinforcements than a city that can. Even then, Europeans weren't stupid and knew that they needed to ally with locals, which was key to their success.

When Europeans came with horses, wearing armor and armed with iron swords and cannons the natives were simply unable to confront them in battle.

Which is why they quickly learned they had to use guerilla tactics. Also, in the denser forests of Central and South Americas, cannons were usually too much of a hassle to haul and would often be more of a psychological effect than anything, since you can't aim for shit when you can barely see 100yd in front of you due to vegetation.

Wrong lesson to take away. When Europeans showed up they shat themselves at the amount of food available year round. Because "new world" natives farmed much, much higher calorie and variety of food in much much more diverse environs.

It's a good bet that 80+ percent of your daily food is explicitly the product of precolombian farming practises and selective breeding of crops.

What happened was specialisation adapted to environs. You don't plough because there are no draft animals. You don't use wheels because the terrain won't support it. You adapt.

Yeah, because people in 1700s would know why you're wearing that, and not attack you for being a witch.

Even if you aren't carrying any diseases, the fact remains that you are carrying germs that are completely foreign to their ecosystem, and as such they possess no resistance to. Something harmless to you can be deadly to an immune system that never had to deal with it.

Come to think of it, I've never seen a time travel story that addressed this. I guess most writers either don't know or feel the story would be too tedious with that detail included.

Oh yea I’m an Atheist, but the jokes not as funny if I have to explain finding the missing link :)

wrong

iirc, we were pretty dependent getting nitrates for gunpowder from urine and bat guano until we were able to start synthesizing it.

Thankfully, this is an easy problem to solve. If you're planning a time trip, just research the locations of potassium nitrate deposits before you go.

Yeah? All humans are savages. I literally said in my comment. If you gave guns to the ancient romans they would also use it to shoot the shit out of eachother. Now, a much better idea would be to go back and tell them them how to defend themselves from the invaders. Also with the power you could get from knowing the future it might be better to do something political like establishing a sort of native american united states in which natives have to respect other natives' rights and the whole of america is also protected federally under non-natives. They already had their own politics you would just need to tweak it so the british dont steamroll over them.

Also your comment reeks of "they're savages!"

Maybe if your reading comprehension sucks, or if you're overly sensitive to certain words

Really because they are saying their humans and not the Nobel savage that it seems you like to think they were

Dude you need to read up on how native Americans dealt with Europeans and Americans until they were forced on reservations, the black hills were a focal point of war and and while the Lakota Sioux are the current tribe most associated with them in the American cultural zeitgeist the Cheyenne and Arapaho have older links to those hills if I remember correctly. Hell going back to the sale of Manhattan was not the local tribe selling it but their enemy neighbor who sold the land and helped depopulate the island for the Dutch.

In short native American tribes had conflict and hatreds between themselves and fought eachother to their detriment until there was no other way to go forward than to unite.