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Basically, the goal is for some (not necessarily all) the major New World Empires or Civilizations to be conquered by an Old World country (not necessarily the Europeans), yet to have their cultures, religions, and such survive to the present day to a much greater extant than OTL.

For example, the criteria for success is something like a New World equivalent of OTL Kurdistan, where it is under foreign rule for centuries, yet it is entirely realistic to imagine a Kurdish-speaking, Majority ethnically Kurdish state declaring independence in the 1800s or 1900s. (NOTE: the scenario doesn't require that any war of independence actually BE successful. Just that it is possible for it to occur.)
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