They all thought it would be beneficial to them, and for a long time it was through trade and local treaties. The just rapid expansion of the US, and its constant wars, just made those benefits slowly degrade until things got pretty bad.
The Aztecs were just unique in being so awful that everyone was happier being conquered than having to deal with them.
They LOVED trading cheap and easy to steal skins of inedible non-humans for metal trinkets.
All the fuckers who whine about not still being in the stone age are welcome to strip naked and knap them some stone in the boreal forest. Preferably in February.
Then you had the tribes who helped Europeans because it was beneficial for them. Like the neighboring tribes helping the Spanish against the Aztecs
They all thought it would be beneficial to them, and for a long time it was through trade and local treaties. The just rapid expansion of the US, and its constant wars, just made those benefits slowly degrade until things got pretty bad.
The Aztecs were just unique in being so awful that everyone was happier being conquered than having to deal with them.
They LOVED trading cheap and easy to steal skins of inedible non-humans for metal trinkets.
All the fuckers who whine about not still being in the stone age are welcome to strip naked and knap them some stone in the boreal forest. Preferably in February.