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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
Many of those "countries" weren't really countries, just various tribes in scattered villages. What boundaries that existed were merely the limits of one tribes influence. We just walked in, set the borders and organised things.
It was setting those borders without regard to the ethnicity or religeons of the various tribes that were ruled by us and the other colonial powers of the time that seem to be at the root of many of todays conflicts.
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I always found it odd growing up looking at maps of the world and seeing most of Europe and Asia divided up along "wiggly" lines (rivers/mountains/other geographical dividers), while Africa was divided up with arrow straight ones...