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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum
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To: elmatador who wrote (57959)11/16/2009 3:24:22 AM
From: Maurice Winn1 Recommendation  Read Replies (2) of 219974
 
They weren't really persecuted were they, or they wouldn't have been alive to arrive on the Mayflower. < those Anglos who were persecuted by the religious beliefs who went in the Mayflower to the US? >

Conquest and plunder has been the norm since humans were chimps < The conquistadores were right too. No appologies for the sacking of the silver and gold. >

Sir Francis Drake was a plunderer who was rewarded and admired for it. Conquest, pillage and plunder was a good and honorable thing for real men to do, around the world [though various places were civilizing within their own realms]. See how many spare males were breeding around the world: <Sir Francis Drake was born in Tavistock, Devon, in February or March of 1540.[4] He was the eldest of the twelve sons[5] of Edmund Drake (1518–1585), > en.wikipedia.org What to do with them all? The answer was unavoidable and Malthusian.

It's only in recent centuries that trade has become the norm internationally, and only in the 20th century that the trade has been globalized and genteel for the most part.

In the 19th century, Maoris were still eating each other and any Europeans they could get their hands on.

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