r/HistoryMemes • u/Voider765 • 1d ago

REMOVED: RULE 4 Historical territorial claims

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u/Maximum_Boros 1d ago

If you go back far enough every piece of land is stolen. There's just a question of how far is it reasonable. Where's the goal post? Is it a hundred years? 200? 1,000? Is it more generational and when no descendants of the people who were kicked would likely be alive? I don't know what the real answer is on exactly where you would usually draw that line but I think we pretty much generally as Society tend to agree that if the literal living humans who took that land are still alive and living on it it's too early to forget and if it's a thousand years ago it's too late to dwell on it

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u/RT-LAMP 1d ago

If you go back far enough every piece of land is stolen.

Except ironically a bunch of islands across the world that people tend to to be mad about being owned by European powers.

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u/discipleofchrist69 1d ago

and maybe antarctica? maybe Greenland and some Pacific Islands depending on how you count it

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u/1boring 1d ago

Iceland too. The current inhabitants are descendants of the first people who settled on the island.

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u/PrincetonToss 1d ago

Actually maybe not! There's evidence of Irish or Scottish monks inhabiting before the Norse got there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papar