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* Spanish conquistador Juan Alonso and a handful of men, fleeing from a local tyrant in Panama, were taken in by the Panamanian tribal chieftain Careta. Alonso eventually argued with another conquistador and killed him in a swordfight, which impressed Careta so much that he made him chief of his armies (although the Spaniards remained the only swordsmen in service because they only had their swords and couldn't make more). With the arrival of UsefulNotes/VascoNunezDeBalboa, Alonso betrayed Careta and helped Núñez to strike a DefeatMeansFriendship pact with the chieftain, who eased things by marrying off his daughter Anayansi to Núñez. Despite their newfound alliance, Careta still gave Alonso a sort of "thank you for everything, but go away and never return, jerk".
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* Spanish-Portuguese sailor Aleixo García and his comrades became stranded in the South American coast, where they narrowly avoided being cannibalized by the local Guarani tribes. They instead got to be allowed to join the tribes, learned their languages and customs, and even helped them with military tactics in incursions against the Inca Empire, years before UsefulNotes/FranciscoPizarro found it. García and his warriors contacted with Spain to send in reinforcements, but they went missing in action shortly after, having been possibly ambushed and killed by rival tribes to steal their booty.
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* Rick Sanchez from ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' is a textbook example, as he is completely capable of creating intra-universal travel technology from stone age era ingredients given a few days time and a partner of near-but-still-inferior intelligence.
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* Portuguese sailors and traders who got stranded in Japan by a stroke of bad luck in the early 1500s brought primitive firearms with them. In less than a generation, the Japanese used [[KatanasAreJustBetter their skills in metalworking]] to mass produce and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanegashima_%28Sengoku period to improve]] the primitive matchlock musket, such that some were nigh-impervious to rain. While two European empires fought with armies of roughly 20,000 men each at Rocroi in 1643, 50 years before that Japan could project over the sea to Korea 160,000 men, of which over 40,000 were trained musketmen.

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* Portuguese sailors and traders who got stranded in Japan by a stroke of bad luck in the early 1500s brought primitive firearms with them. In less than a generation, the Japanese used [[KatanasAreJustBetter their skills in metalworking]] to mass produce and [[http://en.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanegashima_%28Sengoku period org/wiki/Tanegashima_(gun)#Sengoku_period to improve]] the primitive matchlock musket, such that some were nigh-impervious to rain. While two European empires fought with armies of roughly 20,000 men each at Rocroi in 1643, 50 years before that Japan could project over the sea to Korea 160,000 men, of which over 40,000 were trained musketmen.
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* Portuguese sailors and traders who got stranded in Japan by a stroke of bad luck in the early 1500s brought primitive firearms with them. In less than a generation, the Japanese used [[KatanasAreJustBetter their skills in metalworking]] to mass produce and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanegashima_%28Japanese_matchlock%29 to improve]] the primitive matchlock musket, such that some were nigh-impervious to rain. While two European empires fought with armies of roughly 20,000 men each at Rocroi in 1643, 50 years before that Japan could project over the sea to Korea 160,000 men, of which over 40,000 were trained musketmen.

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* Portuguese sailors and traders who got stranded in Japan by a stroke of bad luck in the early 1500s brought primitive firearms with them. In less than a generation, the Japanese used [[KatanasAreJustBetter their skills in metalworking]] to mass produce and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanegashima_%28Japanese_matchlock%29 org/wiki/Tanegashima_%28Sengoku period to improve]] the primitive matchlock musket, such that some were nigh-impervious to rain. While two European empires fought with armies of roughly 20,000 men each at Rocroi in 1643, 50 years before that Japan could project over the sea to Korea 160,000 men, of which over 40,000 were trained musketmen.
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* ''Manga/DrStone'': The entire human race was petrified; three thousand years later, Senku Ishigami manages to break out of his stone shell through a combination of willpower and some lucky exposure to natural chemicals. Everything humans built is long gone, putting him at ''below'' Stone Age technology. But he is a scientist, and he resolves to crawl back up the tech tree, starting with finding the solution to reverse the petrification for everyone. Furthermore, he eventually finds a village of Stone Age humans and recruits them for his new Kingdom of Science. [[spoiler:The villagers turn out to be descendants of the [[WhatAboutTheAstronauts astronauts who survived the petrification]], including Senku's father, who knew that ''somehow'' Senku would eventually wake up and save everyone]].

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* ''Manga/DrStone'': The entire human race was petrified; three thousand years later, Senku Ishigami manages to break out of his stone shell through a combination of willpower and some lucky exposure to natural chemicals. Everything humans built is long gone, putting him at ''below'' Stone Age technology. But he is a scientist, and he resolves to crawl back up the tech tree, starting with finding the solution to reverse the petrification for everyone. Furthermore, he eventually finds a village of Stone Age humans and recruits them for his new Kingdom of Science. [[spoiler:The villagers turn out to be descendants of the [[WhatAboutTheAstronauts [[ButWhatAboutTheAstronauts astronauts who survived the petrification]], including Senku's father, who knew that ''somehow'' Senku would eventually wake up and save everyone]].

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