• naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    So genocide is the key word. A lot of conquest did not involve the displacement or extermination of entire peoples until colonialism.

    Conquering a place was largely “so you pay tax to me now” prior to colonialism, at which point it became more “so you are subhuman and need to be exterminated or bread of of existence”