A question for the political history buffs

[nolly]

Is there any [group of people sharing a culture and geography] (country, nation, whatever word(s) you think fit best) who have never conquered anyone nor been conquered? Has there ever been?

Comments

[dafydd.livejournal.com]

If you stretch the definition sufficiently, one of the Inuit populations might qualify. Also, we might find a South American or Polynesian tribe that would fit that description...

[clawfoot.livejournal.com]

Yes, I agree -- probably the Greenland Inuit. I would say that the North American Inuit/Aleut groups were effectively taken over by European North Americans. But the Dutch (the nation that "owned" Greenland; at least, I think it was the Dutch) were actually extremely conscientious concerning the culture and language of the Greenland Inuit.

[quaryn-dk.livejournal.com]

It was the Danish. And no, they weren't.

[clawfoot.livejournal.com]

I grant that perhaps what I said was too generous, but if I stick the word "relatively" in there, I think it still stands. The Danes perhaps weren't perfect, but they were exceedingly better than the European North Americans when it came to dealing with Inuit peoples.