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The Europeans were sent home, those that tried to stay were slaughtered.

Except in Northern Canada. There they reacted by trading for hundreds of years.

The next wave of Europeans about 500 years later had firearms which made them much harder to drive away. The Aboriginals tried but lost so many battles they just gave up land, and then more land, and then.....

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