:amerikkka:

Myth of consensual oil trade

🇮🇳: I consent

🇷🇺: I consent

🇺🇸: I DON'T!

  • star_wraith [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Funny because right up to the age of colonialism, aliens visiting earth would probably spend their time with the most "civilized" places - India, China, Tenochtitlan, etc. Western Europe was an irrelevant, "underdeveloped" backwater. There's some story about some of the initial contact between W. Europe and India, I think around the middle of the 15th century. The Europeans brought like shitty linens and they thought they could trade them for like gems and stuff, and the Indians just laughed at them.