So, how would the borders issue be resolved? At least for the Americas, countries were allowed to de jure take over land so Chile could take Bolivia's coast line, America could take Mexico's northern territories, Paraguay could get shrunken. Are the America's more peaceful because of it? Or are they simply more peaceful because they wiped out or heavily bred with the natives and wiping out separate ethnic identities of the previous inhabitants? And in Europe, borders were established over many years. Eventually, many got a nation states. But even so, there are still nations without their own states and here and there, they've been a bit violent in the last 50 years.

So, how would borders be reapportioned and who would decide it? And how would you get some nations to accept the split?


Quote Originally Posted by gaelic cowboy View Post
Hmm

Was Africa made better by Euro colonisation? I suppose it depends on your definition of better.

What gets me is Europe has interacted with Africa for thousands of years, so why does the story in school only start with the British and there scrambling.

Hello Rome and Greece anyone
And Africans colonizing Europe. Carthage owning eastern Spain, and several African Muslim groups moving into Spain and either displacing Christians or other Muslims.