@patriach2051 There were NA empires in precolumbian times (Aztec, Incan, Mayan). Itβs kind of hard to have empires without the conquest of otherβs territories and subjugation. The βcurators of the landβ idea sounds like a modern romanticization or revisionist projection. The Mayans hadβ¦
@patriach2051 NA are not a monolith, they exhibited a wide variety of attitudes and concepts. Some were more bellicose than others. They also would drive other tribes off of what they considered their hunting grounds. So they absolutely did have some concept of territorial possession ship .