wars become more likely as parity decreases between adversaries
The pre-Columbian civilizations endured endless cycles of petty violence, as near-peers feuded over territory, romance, and scarce resources. However, the Colonial Era brought a new age of peace and prosperity, ending the millennia of fractious tribal conflicts with a single continent-sweeping genocide and subsequent chattel slavery system.
Finally, one man in a big house with a loaded gun could impose peace upon an entire field of imported slave-hands, and the cycle of violence emblematic of First Nations rule could come to an end for ever and ever and ever (or at least from around 1789 to 1864).
The pre-Columbian civilizations endured endless cycles of petty violence, as near-peers feuded over territory, romance, and scarce resources. However, the Colonial Era brought a new age of peace and prosperity, ending the millennia of fractious tribal conflicts with a single continent-sweeping genocide and subsequent chattel slavery system.
Finally, one man in a big house with a loaded gun could impose peace upon an entire field of imported slave-hands, and the cycle of violence emblematic of First Nations rule could come to an end for ever and ever and ever (or at least from around 1789 to 1864).