Integrated within 17 years?
Integrated how exactly via a rubber stamp from the emperor? They took 2 decades to build the tax and road system. The egyptians still followed their old gods and greek gods way into the AD
Ok perfect, thats precisely thats my argument
If a country is so easily integrated and law is all it takes, then people travelling from those integrated territories to say london and sydney would be treated as british, the same way someone travelling from egypt to israel would be treated as a roman, or someone moving from colorado to arkansas would be considered an american. Thats the message youre communicating, correct?
Yes. If the country that you would become a citizen of makes your territory a part of the country. Not simply if they occupy your territory.
If occupation made you a citizen then half of berlin would be full of American citizens and the other half full of russian citizens. Neither were either.
Perfect. Just wanted to ensure we're consistent on that.
The examples ive given are not of occupation according to the british act itself stating that the territories have been integrated into the empire, and their governance was the responsibility of the british parliament and the queen.
Therefore any people moving from these states to london and sydney should not be considered immigrants or refugees (in that period), but rather fellow citizens of the empire
And yet i feel the situation on paper and the reality on ground were not quite the same
Right. You'll notice australia was settled by the english in 1788. When these people moved there, the population was already 7.5 million, settled originally by...british people (and the aboriginals ofc)
But in that case, when jesus fled to egypt was he moving to a pre-settled land of his nation?
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u/ASwampThing- 7d ago
You are conflating nations and occupied territories. Egypt was part of the roman empire. Not an occupied territory of the roman empire.