Macabre question I’m pondering right now: is there more killing on rough, lawless frontiers or corrupt and collapsing civilization cores. My intuition is that the latter is far worse but I have no data.
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The “exploration” of the American west was largely competitive state formation not pristine. Just very one-sides, and after the clear cutting the settling looked vaguely like exploration.
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Out of curiosity, what's an example of an "actual sparsely inhabited frontier," if the American West doesn't count? None come to mind; pretty much every "frontier" I can think of is actually a sedentary civilization coming up against a nomadic one
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Last I can think of was 13c Hawaii. Everywhere else since had locals.
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No such thing. Not for a thousand years.
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Moon, Antarctica, probably pockets of rough terrain like mountain heights, oceans, deep sea. They’re all exploration for its iwn sake without settling though.
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