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came with the common goal of "settling" the "New World," which had already been settled by waves of indigenous peoples from #Asia millenia earlier (#FirstAmericans/ #NativeAmerican.)

Most of
these peoples had marshalled a sustainable way of life (another contrast to the #Mayan people of #MesoAmerica, who seem to have pushed population density beyond that level
in several regions.)
The #European settlers who soon had a "stake-my-claim" mentality as a unifying factor, apart @xankarn @HistoPol