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Never said it did, but people have moved across borders since time immemorial.
by QuercusMax 4y ago
Never said it did, but people have moved across borders since time immemorial.
- cato_the_elder 4y agoIt's correct that people moved around since forever. But I think applying the the concept of illegal immigration to colonization of Americas doesn't make sense. The indigenous Americans didn't organize their societies as nation states. So, I doubt that they had "borders" in the sense used here. Supporting this is the fact that their cartography wasn't very advanced. Here's how their maps looked like: https://www.archaeology.org/issues/338-features/maps/7549-maps-south-carolina-catawba-map https://www.archaeology.org/issues/338-features/maps/7549-ma...