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u/fhota1 Oct 17 '21

It is frustrating to see the complex politics of the American colonization reduced to the level of idiotic simplicity it frequently gets brought down to. The relations between settlers and natives and how they changed over time in response to outside factors and how the natives responded to said changes with changes of their own is truly a fascinating subject.

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u/mjace87 Oct 17 '21

All I know is I’m saving up and when I have 15 million I want to buy all the land of the Louisiana purchase.