Apror wrote:Nuverikstan wrote:Expansion into Northern California and Oklahoma is a bit of a stretch, but rice farming and other techniques would provide a population boom, but nothing crazy. However, the question is how well will your people adapt, and will Japan be able to set aside some of the Maya's beliefs to befriend them? It never matters how progressive your leader is, it is how progressive are your people?
That is a good question. Why wouldn't the Japanese, with superior technology and more people, who think themselves superior, not just outright conquer the Maya's, or attempt to like the Europeans.
Japan and I have talked about this and the simple answer is: transportation. The Europeans, being a few hundred years later, had the means to send large amounts of men long distances to fight. The Pacific Ocean, however, is much larger and the route is even longer, going around the Pacific Rim. They simply don't have the resources to send a large amount of soldiers overseas to go to war with a large empire. Eventually they realize that trade us much more profitable than war. And to the whole rice farming thing, that's not all of it. From the mid-700s we'd be focusing much more heavily on farming, causing a larger population boom over a much larger period of time, but rice helps too I guess. We'd have the resources to conquer up to the Great Lakes but as I've said, we sure as he'll couldn't sustain it. I know we'd lose against Europeans, even with Japanese aid, but it wouldn't be an easy war at all for the Europeans. And about the Progressiveness of the people, we've had hundreds if years to work on it that we're missing. The current king (pre-time skip) is starting to question the existence of the gods. The next will start the two hundred year shift from polytheistic beliefs to painting themselves as gods, similar to the pharaohs of Egypt. When the Japanese arrived we'd see a mixture of this belief system and Buddhism, which I'm still trying to work the kinks out of. Gotta go for a bit.
