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The history of The U.S

Oozlefinch said:
No, it was a colony.

In fact, a Crown Colony, that was simply an extension of it's home country, Great Brittan. It was not in any way a country, but an extension of a country.

Just as the 13 Colonies were before they broke away.
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In fact, the Mayflower colonists came here under protest. They had wanted to return to England from Holland, where they had first fled religious persecution, but couldn't, on pain of persecution. So they came here. But anyway, perhaps you see the reason for my question: I was responding to someone whose ancestors were colonists, not a "country" (whatever that means).
 
The history of North America

Bodhisattva said:
No North American Native Americans had a written language... that means no records. That means your relatives could have come over much later and been assimilated.
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No, look up the Maya, the Aztec, Miztec, Zapotec. Nahuatl (Aztec) is still a live language & culture. (Most of the Native Peoples pre-European contact lived south of the now US/Mexico border. It may take a certain density of population &/or crops/agriculture & necessity of timing out planting season - astronomy/mathematics - to engender writing.) The Aztecs certainly left a lot of public records - names, histories, dates - on public buildings. The also had codices, which were mostly destroyed or confiscated by the Spanish. A handful of documents have survived, in museums or private collections, here & there.
 
Re: The history of North America

southwest88 said:
No, look up the Maya, the Aztec, Miztec, Zapotec. Nahuatl (Aztec) is still a live language & culture. (Most of the Native Peoples pre-European contact lived south of the now US/Mexico border. It may take a certain density of population &/or crops/agriculture & necessity of timing out planting season - astronomy/mathematics - to engender writing.) The Aztecs certainly left a lot of public records - names, histories, dates - on public buildings. The also had codices, which were mostly destroyed or confiscated by the Spanish. A handful of documents have survived, in museums or private collections, here & there.
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Most people consider those civilizations to be within Central America...
 
The consensus seems to run the other way

Bodhisattva said:
Most people consider those civilizations [Maya, the Aztec, Miztec, Zapotec] to be within Central America...
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No, they all were/are in Mexico, which is within North America (although the Maya area did/does extend further south into Central America as well). (Surprisingly, Central America is often also associated with North America. I assumed C. America was considered its own geographical area, surprise.)

But look around on the Internet. If you find something different, please post a link.
 
Re: The consensus seems to run the other way

southwest88 said:
No, they all were/are in Mexico, which is within North America (although the Maya area did/does extend further south into Central America as well). (Surprisingly, Central America is often also associated with North America. I assumed C. America was considered its own geographical area, surprise.)

But look around on the Internet. If you find something different, please post a link.
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Yeah, it technically is part of North America but I don't care... I have my own definition. ;)
 
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