My ancestors, ironically on both sides of my inverse family tree, are only back-traceable to the mid/late 16th century. Every record before that was either destroyed by the Spanish armed forces (for being Protestant) or simply non-existent because the regions people migrated from were not keeping records. The best documented "beginnings" of both ancestral sides were as refugees. Must have been tough to flee and start over.

Not much has changed since the 1580s. People still get judged and made an enemy out of based on the geographic region they were born in, their ethnicity and their religious beliefs, and as a result, people still get driven from their homes and are forced seek refuge. It would be a great outcome for this to be an alien concept to future generations, but the more time I spend in this world, the more I find it likely that the tool of dividing people against eachother will keep on being used by those seeking to gain or consolidate their power.

Thus, we work to develop tools that undermine the power any aggressor can exert over us. Bastions of sovereignty.