Late Stage Capitalism

The main reason native americans had such a hard time fighting back the europeans is that they didn't have immunity to old world diseases. You should've brought vaccines.

By going back and meeting them, you just got them sick even earlier.

If we're arming people I think a slightly better solution would have been to go further back and arm the peasants in Europe so they can overthrow the monarchs/feudal lords and dismantle the hierarchical system that sent people to "discover" the world for profit/plunder and did the enclosures at home

Please, Based time travelers would send the T-100 terminator to the Garden of Eden. All the problems solved

"Aborigines of Sydney Cove, I know you can't understand me but this is called a howitzer and you're gonna want some earplugs."

Give the Apaches some Apaches, the Comanches some Comanches and the Chinook can take over logistics with some Chinooks and so on

I don't remember the name now (I can find it if anyone's interested) but I remember reading about a native from south America that spent some time in Spanish colonies and then joined an expedition to North America (think California) as a translator. Once he arrived north he told natives what the Spaniards are up to and to kill all of them. The north was of course still conquered eventually but they did enjoy couple more decades of freedom thanks to him.

A smallpox vaccine would be way more effective.

I shall bring horses to the Americas in the year 1011 AD. With any luck, the black plague will get around them anyway, but they'll recover in time for the yuropeean arrival

hypothetically, if Columbus journey would have sunk in a storm.

How long would it have been until another European would have tried?

10 years, 50years? a century??

or maybe an asian expedition reaching across the Bering straight would have found it?

Would the meme be a hiccup in history, or a significant change?

Not far back enough.

Give the AK47s to the dinosaurs.

I always wondered if I got dropped off into 1650s North America if I could get the Native Americans technically advanced enough to have semi autos by the time I die before the huge colonizer/settler events happen.

I bet even just muskets and penicillin could have tipped the scales.

Or kill the settlers yourself gruesomely and allow one or two to return to speak of the horrors. They wouldn't be back for a long time.

That would be a horrible decision. They would likely still die from the diseases spread from europe but also proceed probably having a huge native on native war because i know this is very surprising but native americans also had wars between each other as they were also humans.

(Native Americans went on to subjugate everyone else with their superior technology)

If they’re within range for an AK they’re already close enough to spread disease.

Go back and give them a couple WWII destroyers and an oiler and that will keep them safe.

For me, step 0 would be to travel to the Americas ~400CE and introduce various diseases that Europeans will bring. Maybe it would make me a bioterrorist time criminal, but the hope is that indigenous societies would have more immunity by the 1500s and not get destroyed by smallpox. Then they can mount a more effective and sutained resistance against European expeditions.