Timeline for What would be the societal effect of a higher technology planet visit a lower technology one?
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| Dec 20, 2014 at 7:33 | history | edited | juncofea | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Two changes introduced in last edit seemed to introduce a grammar problem. I also restored "lower" which was changed to "low", because I was wanted to emphasize that this is a statement about relatives and not absolutes; either is grammatically fine if I'm not mistaken. Thanks for the rest!
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| Dec 20, 2014 at 7:26 | comment | added | juncofea | Belatedly: I agree there are many exceptions, and was aiming only for the general case. Diamond's thesis only addresses very wide technological gaps, which seemed a fair comparison if we're talking about aliens visiting earth, although many of his examples are pre-industrial, including cases where cultures with steel weapons encountered those without and where muskets meant a very small army gained a vast advantage over a large one. The original question mentioned Native American cultures, so particularly I was thinking of the conquest of the Inca and Aztec empires | |
| Dec 10, 2014 at 13:35 | comment | added | SJuan76 | There are several instances where the less developed culture was victorious: Rome against Germans, Mongols against Chinese, first wave of Muslim conquests against Persia and Bizantine Empire. It is from the Industrial Revolution that Europe gets a decissive upper edge. | |
| Dec 10, 2014 at 10:39 | comment | added | Shivan Dragon | An instance apart from the trend you describe is the Vietnam war, where the less technologically advanced party shamed the more advanced one. This is IMHO the inspiration for the Falling Skies TV series | |
| S Dec 10, 2014 at 9:53 | history | suggested | HungryDB | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 10, 2014 at 8:02 | history | answered | juncofea | CC BY-SA 3.0 |