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being the first ones to get there and setting up bases.

They didnot come to a vacuum.They encountered superior economies and systems.But their advantage lay in superior war ships,artillery,centralised organisation and nation state ideology,organised religious insruments and ideology.Their domination was similar to that of the Turkish conquest of north India

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being the first ones to get there and setting up bases.

They didnot come to a vacuum.They encountered superior economies and systems.But their advantage lay in superior war ships,artillery,centralised organisation and nation state ideology,organised religious insruments and ideology.Their domination was similar to that of the Turkish conquest of north India

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