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[-] [email protected] 116 points 1 year ago

Good thing that ocean was there or 1600s Virginia would have claimed the entire planet with their innovative "peeling the label off a biscuit can" approach to real estate.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

Fucking love that name you gave for the approach

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Of course. They couldn't though, because the Spanish had already claimed the whole Pacific ocean as their territory. (/s, but only on the connection between the two things)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Good stuff hung

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Reminds me about the Treaty of Zaragoza between Castile (Spain) and Portugal, where they divided the world in two half between each other. Just claim big.

Context: The "new world" was just discovered 35 yeas earlier and the world map was still very crude in the east indias and the new amazonas region - worldmaps 1530

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The Portuguese perfected early cannons and had pretty good ships. You can win lots of coastline if you can just aim 20 guns at a city in the 1500s. That's like having jet aircraft in the 1800s.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

How it started versus How it's going.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

1609 would be more understandable if it wasn't for the meander between Lakes Superior and Winnipeg.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

western VA can go next

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

According to putting that means they still have a claim on it

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