• Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Pretty much every piece of NZ had been taken off someone by force at some point, before Europeans even landed. The Maori tribes had a number of wars between each other over territory.

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      I’d think that’s the case for pretty much everywhere on Earth.

      It’s only fairly recently that we started exchanging coins for land rather than just killing whoever was on it.