Help me relabel precolonial with classical names

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    Just a bit of historical fun - I need help relabeling precolonial countries with the classical names of their regions. I've done a few already - please tell me if I screwed up!

    Mexico - Aztec
    Peru - Inca
    Colombia - Muisca (Chibcha)
    Guatemala - Maya
    Chile - Mapuche
    Brazil - Tupia
    Paraguay - Guarania
    Uruguay - Charrua
    Argentina - Querandia
    Israel or Palestine - Canaan
    Somaliland or Djibouti - Ancient Israel
    Eritrea - Punt
    Greenland - Inuitia
    Bolivia - Tiwanaku Empire
    Iran - Persia
    Iraq - Babylonia
    Syria - Ancient Syria
    Egypt - Ancient Egypt
    Libya - Ancient Libya
    Morocco - Maureatania
    Algeria - Numidia
    Sudan - Nubia
    New Zealand - Maoria
    The Philippines - Tagalogia
    Tunisia - Carthaginia
    Cyprus - Ancient Cyprus
    Jordan - Nabatea
    Lebanon - Phoeniceia
    Yemen - Himyar
    Montenegro - Proto-Albania
    Kosovo - Dardania
    Albania - Illyria
    North Korea - Goguryeo
    Indonesia - Old Java
    Malaysia - Old Malay
    France - Gallia
    Austria - Norigia
    Switzerland - Helvetia
    United Kingdom - Britannia
    Ukraine - Sarmatia
    Belarus - Venedia
    United States - Cherokee
    Canada - Iroquois

    Anyone know anything else?
     
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    • Armot

    Paraguay was poetically called Guarania back in the first half of the 20th century.

    Inca is the title of the ruler. The empire proper was the Tawantinsuyo.
     
    Flashman

    Flashman

    Doesn't really make sense to say that the classic name of Greenland is Inuit since A) the Inuit are a very wide-ranging people and B) the Norse got there before the Inuit
     

    Johnny281993

    Ecuador -?
    Venezuela - ?
    United States - ?
    Canada - ?
    Nicaragua - ?
    Belize - ?
    Suriname - ?
    Cuba - ?
    Honduras - ?
    Guyana - ?
    French Guiana - ?

    Anyone know anything else?
     

    Bleh

    By classical names, do you mean the names of pre-Colombian polities that existed in roughly the same geographical area? And are you looking for the names that the people called themselves, the names they gave to their polities, the names that Europeans called their polities, or something else?
     
    Gokbay

    Gokbay

    Resurgam said:
    The US is a modern political construction. Pre-Colombian it was a huge sprawling land with numerous tribes. So it's unlikely there'd be a single uniform name.
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    You could go with some of the names the Revolutionaries were thinking of.

    Columbia, Libertalia, Freedonia...
     
    JorgeGG

    JorgeGG

    If by classical names you mean native or non Spanish or English ones here are some for Chile, which by its long geography can be divided as follows:
    Arika
    Antofagasta
    Atakama or Copiapo (Qupayapu)
    Diaguita or Coquimpu
    The above were part of Tawantinsuyo (Inca Empire)
    Wallmapu, broadly between the Linari River and Chiloe Archipelago)

    Further South kind of difficult being very harsh the climate with few resources for agriculture, husbandry, hunting and fishing
     

    Paraiba

    Wouldn't Pindorama be a better name for Brazil than Tupia? It is name of the country in Guarani, an indigenous language present in our(i am brazillian) country.
     
    treefreak32

    treefreak32

    Saint John, NB could be called Wolastoq, which is what the indigenous inhabitants called it. It was also at one point two towns, Parrtown and Carleton, so a fun alternate name could Parrtown-Carleton.
     
    treefreak32

    treefreak32

    Canada itself was almost known by a number of other names. These include New Albion, Ursalia, and Cabotia.

    More specifically, Montreal can alternatively be known as Hochelaga.
     
    Crazy Boris

    Crazy Boris

    Banned
    since Canada's largest tribe is the Cree, maybe it could take on a Cree-based name, like "Néhinawia" or something

    Puerto Rico's an easy one: Boriken/Boriquen, the Taino name for the island that's been used poetically and unofficially by Puerto Ricans for a long time

    For Greenland you could combine Norse and Inuit names into "Grœnnunaat" (literally Greenland, Grœn from Norse, Nunaat from Kalaallit)
     
    James the AH Fan

    James the AH Fan

    Ecuador - Quichua
    Venezuela - Arawak
    United States - Turtle Island
    Canada - Kanata
    Nicaragua - Miskito
    Belize - Lamanai
    Suriname - Akuria
    Cuba - Guanahatabey
    Honduras - Lenca
    Guyana - Kaponia
    French Guiana - Amazonia
    Brazil - Pindorama
     
    FleetMac

    FleetMac

    Paraiba said:
    Wouldn't Pindorama be a better name for Brazil than Tupia? It is name of the country in Guarani, an indigenous language present in our(i am brazillian) country.
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    Yeah, but wasn't the vast majority of Brazil's territory originally inhabited by Tupian tribes, not the Guarani? Seems to me that'd be like the Spaniards naming Mexico after the Zapotecs instead of the (Valley of) Mexica; sure they're there, but that's not who the colonizers would run into, or deal the most with, first. Same with the Guarani, who seem to have only inhabited the far south of Brazil (which wasn't where the Portuguese originally landed or settled all that much at first).
     
    Mina-van-Mako

    Mina-van-Mako

    FleetMac said:
    Yeah, but wasn't the vast majority of Brazil's territory originally inhabited by Tupian tribes, not the Guarani? Seems to me that'd be like the Spaniards naming Mexico after the Zapotecs instead of the (Valley of) Mexica; sure they're there, but that's not who the colonizers would run into, or deal the most with, first. Same with the Guarani, who seem to have only inhabited the far south of Brazil (which wasn't where the Portuguese originally landed or settled all that much at first).
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    I tried finding the Tupi word for sandalwood (since it's where the word Brazil comes from) but I couldn't find it. Maybe someone better at this than me could find it ...

    Edit: I'm actually stupid. I was looking for paubrasil and mistook it for sandalwood. So I would suggest Ibirapitanga, which is the Tupi word for Paubrasil.
     
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    Johnny281993

    Indigenous people living in the United States and Canada what is the name before the British colonisation?
     
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