While the rival bands of preachers squabbled, Cromwell, like Edward I., arranged that Scottish members should sit in Westminster, and, commercially, as in the administration of fair justice, and the peace of the country, Scotland prospered under English rule.
And like the gods of mythology, the Goa'uld also squabbled and battled among themselves.
As I noted in Part Nine, Other nations squabbled over borders as the nations were being established.