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That's what bombs are for.

Initially, straight up "We're English, you're French!" would probably be enough to start guerrilla war, and once it started Napoleon might well respond dickishly enough that it spreads.

Actually, no. what actually seems to have happened is, they got told stories of "The Golden Man"(AKA, El Dorado), found the tribe these stories referenced(a tribe who's kings got dusted with gold as part of their coronation, which also dumped a lot of gold stuff into a lake), and went "That's...

People exaggerate. And Obsidian is very hard and sharp for sure, it's also incredibly brittle. An obisidian arrow going fast enough to have the energy to get through steel is very likely to shatter if that steel is even halfway decent. It's worth remembering that Obsidian got shaped by taking...

...Longbows absolutely could kill a man in plate. Just not by punching through the plate, at least not where the metal was really good. It's worth remembering though, medieval techniques did not get perfectly even steel the way we do today. On top of which, plate armor wasn't solid all the way...

And this part destroys it. To have those bases and KEEP them would require actual force that you can't transport on dragon back. The Chinese eventually have dragons big enough to, but the Romans wouldn't have. Also that ignores Volly being the result of an extra millenium or so of breeding...

Assuming this is true, that just means humans had an extra trick or two. Fundamentally, that Humans Exist, that Humans Evolved, is, in and of itself, evidence that history went basically the same in at least broad strokes. And somehow he doesn't do that when they are leaving China. Somehow in...

No, even the modern ones are not "Cover several thousand miles in a few days", unless your definition of "few days" is "about two weeks". Neither Tigers nor Lions hunt in a manner where a human could make use of that. Wolves absolutely could. And then they face the same thing every predator...

...Dragons are flat out, not that fast. Even the fastest Dragons by the time of the series are not that fast. From Months to Weeks maybe... assuming you can get enough food en route. ...You don't "Outrun" a tiger, or a wolf pack, or a lion pride. Throwing? Dragons? THROWING? The biomechanics...

Ah, but are those Wild Dragons actually Wild? Or, like the "Wild Horses" of the American West, are they descended from Dragons bred by humans? I'd need to go try to find the books again to check but I'm pretty sure several of them were noted to be domestic breeds that weren't eating enough to...

Are they though? As noted in story, Courier Weight dragons are fairly dumb. Were Wild Dragons that were Courier Weight or below smarter or dumber? And Dragons aren't that armored. They're not more armored than say, Elephants or Rhinos and those got hunted enough to develop evasion behaviors to...

Actually, I don't think it's actually all that hard to say "History went basically the same" Ok, so, every really big dragon is explicitly noted to have been bred to that weight by humans, and, well, that makes sense, given the food requirements we see for heavy and midweight dragons there is...