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they would have created borders in a way, that one country always consists of two nations/tribes that don't like each other.
the map simply shows straightened borders for existing countries...
...and call that country "Belgium"
You should probably confine that sort of remark to something artistic.
How dare you use that word!
"country"
Zeg, zal 't een beetje gaa jong?
🇧🇪 😂
I think we settle this a while ago that that’s not a real country
Like a Yugoslavia?
Colonization 101.
You, the colonizer, land on an island with three tribes. Call them Lions, Tigers, and Bears. The Lions are 50% of the population, and control 80% of the wealth. The Tigers are 40% of the population and control 15% of the wealth. The Bears are 10% of the population and have 5% of the wealth. You recruit the Bears to be your army and promise them 10% of the wealth. They love you because you've made them richer than they were before, and they get pay back against the folks who were their enemies forever.
I'd imagine there'd also be borders set within a given "tribe" where one group's land was split between different colonizing powers and the different colonies ended up with different governments and possibly languages from one another.
Which of course makes identifying borders really hard. This is why they often follow distinct geography features like rivers and mountain ranges, or form a line between distinct features.
Also never known of an entire continent acting as a single force.