Puritans coming to America and being told it was a good thing….

I mean, there's a world in which protestant refugees of the Thirty Years War don't just show up and start slaughtering native peoples.

In fact, quite a few early settler colonies ended up "Going Native" and integrating with local tribes, rather than clinging to European identity and loyalty.

But the promise of a New World Gold Rush invited all the wrong kinds of migrants. Add in the Transatlantic slave trade, and you had a thoughtfully toxic stew of feudal politics layered atop capitalist expansion.