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Originally Posted by 81MC
Sure. Colonization did not start, nor stop, with Canada and it’s indigenous inhabitants.
As an example: The war of 1812, France tried in the 1800s to colonize Mexico, with an Austrian emperor. Cuba went through a brutal colonization of Spanish rule until the early 1900s, the Philippines were Spanish until 1898. Almost the entirety of Africa was colonized by the 1900s. Russia had colonized Alaska until sold to the states in the 1867.
And that’s after literal thousands of years of empires. Nowhere in the history of modern man has a nation looked at a vast, unknown land and decided ‘eh, it probably has people living there, so we’ll let it be’.
You could even get into native tribalism and warfare. The Iroquois were undoubtedly more humane and democratic than they were ever given credit for. But let’s not pretend native tribes just sat in their space and never engaged in battles over territory.
There is zero chance that native territories from hundreds of years ago would be intact today.
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Don't really understand what the point of this hypothetical alternate reality is though? I mean, what is the significance of this observation (even if, for the sake of argument, we accept it as true).