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In part inspired by this thread, your challenge is to limit the European presence in North and South America as much as possible (without some sort of cataclysmic event that prevents Europeans from any interaction w/the areas at all). The idea is that while Europeans still re-discover the New World, they are unable/unwilling to colonize the vast majority of it, at most having small, city-state type settlements for limited trade. This is somewhat of a given, but I would also like to see minimal conversion (of a forced nature, anyways) of Native Americans to Christianity, with them retaining most of their own cultures and only willingly adopting European ideas/customs that benefit them most.

Bonus points for anyone who also outlines which Native American groups they think would benefit most from this kind of limited contact/trade with Europeans, and what the geopolitical situation in the Americas would look like in this situation.
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