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Historian Pekka Hämäläinen claims that it was the decentralized nature of North American native societies that brought Spanish expansion to a halt, and that the Natives won as often as they lost when confronting Europeans. Is this accurate?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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