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It helped keep soil fertile and it helped fishing industries.

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Simple: They didn't. They just gave diseases, guns, and Christianity.

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When did the natives started attacking the colonists?

It took some time for relations to get that bad, but the natives only attacked colonists after colonists attacked them.


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