[elchangri]

When has any modern nation state ever not been a conquered state?

[EA-3167]

The entirety of the Americas until European first contact?

[edgyquant]

You should read some pre-Columbus American history. There were loads of empires from the Mississippi to Columbia.

[EA-3167]

Who were they conquered by, in a manner that's REMOTELY analogous to Algeria's history?

[JumpCrisscross]

> Who were they conquered by, in a manner that's REMOTELY analogous to Algeria's history?

The Inca? The Maya? The Navajo call the Ancestral Pueblo the Anasazi for a reason [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestral_Puebloans#Etymology

[EA-3167]

It seems that I have significant gaps in my knowledge of pre-conquest American history.