Indians sold Manhattan for $25

>Indians sold Manhattan for $25

Splendid! When are they leaving?

The indians didnt do anything with it for thousands of years and probably wouldn't do anything for a thousand more, honestly its 25 bucks they wouldnt of had if they hadnt sold it.

25 dollars bought a lot of whiskey in the 1600s desu.

Yeah, they could at least have put up a skyscraper or two.

Yeah but then they tried to take it back

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It wouldve been swamp at the time.

The got a handful of trinkets, beads, and a few blankets too I think.

the blankets weren't even warm also

They had no concept of land ownership.

It no different from that company that sells pieces of the moon.

>They had no concept of land ownership.
THEN WHY THE FUCK WERE THEY KILLING EACH OTHER OVER TERRITORIAL DISPUTES? WHY WERE THERE WARRING TRIBES?

The Dutch even paid that 25 dollars worth of beads twice.

The English traded Suriname for it.

Even though they could have conquered it easily with, zero casualties.
All they had to do was try - the Dutch were ordered to surrender at the first sign of an any English soldiers.

Not that kind of Indians.

>WHY THE FUCK WERE THEY KILLING EACH OTHER OVER TERRITORIAL DISPUTES?

Those were completely different Indians.
America is a big continent.

The Europeans at the time were just better at making investments... and most other things.

casino indians, not 7/11 indians

Any group of people or animals who don't understand the concept of territorial control is doomed to fail. I don't feel bad.

Had small pox though, but that was an "accident"

The vast majority of Indians were wiped out by European diseases long before meeting their fist European.
Diseases spread way faster than settlers and even explorers could.

It was an accident.

The Dutch then traded it for nutmeg.

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