> due to their advances in weapons Not quite, the weapons the west had "developed" were developed far earlier in the middle east and east Asia. Trebuchets, can

> due to their advances in weapons Not quite, the weapons the west had "developed" were developed far earlier in the middle east and east Asia. Trebuchets, cannons, guns, gunpowder, crossbows, etc.. The west just adopted them. > and their brutal tactics, which many indigenous people decried as "too furious". The colonial tactics were brutal but I doubt they were more brutal than what the indigenous people did. The Mayans and the Incas ritually sacrificed their enemies in public, genocided enemy tribes, and other pretty brutal behaviour. The colonial forces just had more powerful weapons.