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Re:Evidence for European presence in the Americas in AD 1021 by tptacek on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @10:50PM (#28939659)
If it's just guns, you have to account for the number of failed attempts, and the century-long military effort it took to hold territory. Cortés got his ass handed to him repeatedly in military conflicts.
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Re:Evidence for European presence in the Americas in AD 1021 by jcranmer on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @10:58PM (#28939703)
> century-long military effort it took to hold territory

Centuries, actually. Indigenous peoples in the Americas were able to hold out against European, and later successor state, attempts to acquire their territory until around 1900.

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