Originally Posted By: ADKOriginally Posted By: swampwalkerYup, totalally different scenario, There were less then a million natives spread out on the entire continent. Basically, nobody owned North America as it was largely unoccupied. On top of that, we’re talking about wooden ships trickling people in over the course of decades. Hardly a land grab.
Actually, most scholars agree that the pre-Columbian (before Columbus) population of indigenous people in North America was somewhere between 50 and 100 million.
It's amazing (to some) what happens when you send boat loads of disease to a population that has never seen a single one of those germs.
If aliens from a different world ever land here, no matter how peaceful, there will likely be massive depopulation following.
Regardless the slow trickle was as fast as then current technology allowed and every shipment was intended to claim as much land as possible.