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?
My expectation, absent actual research data, would be 'No.' South American and South Pacific societies that we think of as having little or no contact with the outside world tend to have very high internal and internecine rates of violence (cf Guns, Germs, and Steel). Certainly no culture groups in Europe, Asia, or Africa can qualify. I could see Inuit, although I can't remember what the environmental conditions were like when they crossed the Bering straight - sure, they may not be expansionist now, but they wouldn't have gotten there in the first place if they weren't expansionist back in the (admittedly very distant) day.
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Date: 2009-06-10 04:29 pm (UTC)South American and South Pacific societies that we think of as having little or no contact with the outside world tend to have very high internal and internecine rates of violence (cf Guns, Germs, and Steel). Certainly no culture groups in Europe, Asia, or Africa can qualify.
I could see Inuit, although I can't remember what the environmental conditions were like when they crossed the Bering straight - sure, they may not be expansionist now, but they wouldn't have gotten there in the first place if they weren't expansionist back in the (admittedly very distant) day.