Please there is no need for hostility. I'm sorry I have caused you such anguish but remember passion is often the death of reason.

I don't think population clumping is as important as overall population density as long as everyone is networked in via trade. When the Black Death came to Europe it visited hamlet and city alike.

First off I don't know why you insist that population density wasn't higher in Europe. Europe had a higher population in 1500 AD with total area 1/4 the that of the Americas. The biggest city in the Americas (Tenochtitlan) had a population of about 200,000. Both Cairo and Constantinople were twice that (yes I know…

Well, really it was a number of things. Livestock did play a major role. It was also due to several old world exchanges between China and Europe that caused major plagues in both cores as well as strengthening immunities. But regardless of individual cities, population density in Europe was higher overall making the…

Very true. I should have made that distinction clearer.

Well, the Europeans that first made it to the new world were heavily financed by their countrymen back home giving them access to the best in military technology. And even though immigration remained a trickle for centuries, eventually maritime technology got better and the trickle became a flood.

Oh yes the Native Americans fought fiercely and developed a number of ingenious methods for taking down the heavily armed and armored conquistadors such as spiked pitfalls and clever use of terrain. The last thing I'm trying to do is disparage them. I'm just trying to point out that pretty much everything was weighted…

Probably. The population in Europe was around 85 million in 1500. Estimates vary widely for the Americas (from 8 million to 120 million). More reasonable estimates tend to land around 55 million.

Not quite true. Even taking disease out of the equation the Europeans still had steel and firearms as well as numbers on their side. Pizarro and a couple hundred Spaniards slaughtered thousands of Incas at the Battle of Cajamarca without losing a man.

I don't think Jayne was being honest when he told Mal in the first episode that he didn't betray him because the money wasn't good enough.  First of all the idea that the money wasn't good enough is sort of ludicrous considering how important the Tams are revealed to be.  I think he didn't turn on Mal because for…

I don't think Jayne was being honest when he told Mal in the first episode that he didn't betray him because the money wasn't good enough.  First of all the idea that the money wasn't good enough is sort of ludicrous considering how important the Tams are revealed to be.  I think he didn't turn on Mal because for…