HiHi
Brilliant a historical descusion!! it's been sometime since the Blitz actually had one of those
Can I come back to you tomorrow on this please JDR as I've x3 battles on at the moment. If you are game maybe we could even transfer this to the Historical descusion forum and maybe get other folk joining in.
Briefly though yes fully agree,
a settlement is a settlement, whether it is in the Americas or Europe, and for much the same reason can I suggest however that there is a diferance between Western europe & the americas, one obviously being size, but more pertinant to europe that of it's phisyical geography and climate, and I would suggest that it's through climate that there is
empirical evidence; think the climatic optimum c800-1300 AD and 'the Little Ice Age' of the early Modern period + earlier ones that drove the tribes West into the Roman empire etc, etc.
Having said all that of course you may not wish to get bogged down in an extended discusion, thats OK just say "No" here I wont take offence ... might sulk a bit, but ... :)
In haste.
All the Best
Peter