Who stole it from someone else, who stole it from someone else, who stole it from someone else. The Europeans DIDN'T DO ANYTHING TO THE NATIVES THAT THEY DIDN'T DO TO EACH OTHER FOR TEN THOUSAND YEARS BEFORE..............
“ We don’t care about claims that America was stolen from other people.”
There are about twelve major language groups of North American Indians. That implies that there were many waves of people moving into North America from Asia. That doesn’t even include the language groups in Central and South America. Who knows when those guys got there.
There is the “Rule of Firsts”, so some brave Asians came to the Western Hemisphere first, but you’re right. It was a free-for-all of slavers, cannibals, and other Stone Age peoples (only one of which developed a rudimentary system of writing), who over the course of 20-30 thousand years made a few citIes. Not that that’s so bad. None of my great-ancestors made a city either, and only a couple made an independent writing system. Given the evolution of societies, the Aztecs and Incas were on the way, much like the Sumerians and Chinese. They were just 5000 years behind the Europeans, who were the next people to come there.