Let us face the facts of historical economical geography, all of our historical narratives although souding dramatic like plays have been inevitable. If the Anerican Revolution hadn't happend in 1776 well it would have happened in 1777, because a little island like England could never control a big place like the American entity between Georiga and Maine, cuz it was big enough to struggle free of an island 2000+ miles away when sea-travel took weeks, and the American backwoods was impossible for the Brtish to control, they couldn't even subjicate the Iroquois, the colonial whities did that cuz they had a base here, they lived nearby, but it was not for the sake of the distant King George. it was to ruthlessly get land out in upstate New York and Ohio. Oh we destroyed a real nation during the American Revolurion with the campaign thru upstate New York that burnt out and stampeded the Iroquous. From 1619 to 1776 the Iroquois controlled the balance of power in this region, although really after the Seven Years War they had no leverage because the French were out of Canada, but it is fascinating how they controlled such a vast region in the 17th and 18th centuries, won and lost the Midwest, maintained the respect of the tribes and colonials, and their languages, directed related to that of the Cherokee which as we know (I say 'we' to be polite) has a syllabary created by Sequoyah (English is too convoluted to be spelt by syllabary, English needed an alphabet with strange spellings to accomodate the Greek, Latin, French, Norse, etc decesdent wordings), and is a noble set of languages; some say the best speakers (Mohawk, Seneca) had a cadence and speech not unlike Castillian; god bless the Iroquois, the native people of the region I myself grew up in, upstate NY, the gateway to the west, and a beautiful place. Go out to Cayuga Lake and you see what the Seneca saw. Or the Mohawk Valley, where the Mohawk and Oneida peoples lived and some still live, a classically glacially terraformed landscape. Hey go dig some quartz crystals while you're out there. That's where the best double-termnated ones come from. Anyway the Americans wanted this land so the second-sons of New England could have farms while the eldest scions held the stony little ancestoral properties back in useless non-profitable Massachusetts, where nowadays there are no more than 150 farms in the whole state, cuz who would want to farm in soil full of stones.