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How could we reduce or drastically change new world colonies to small entities like city state colonies and settlements (like the Greeks had in Ancient Egypt or the Pheonicians, or Venice & Genoa in Crimea) rather than outright
conquests and evictions of Native peoples of OTL?

Also say Columbus didn't survive the journey to the Americas and so the Pinzon brothers are in charge. How does this alter the 1st voyage to the Americas? Would they turn back or keep going delaying Iberian contact with the Americas?
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