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> The first pilgrim settlers to America [...]

Correction: the first non failed british intent to colonize america

A Century before Spanish civilization already was succesfully stablished there. The were already skilled on how to build empires, settlements and communicate with very different cultures and create laws for heterogenous populations, since they had to reconquer their own country after 9 centuries of constant struggle against arabs invasions.

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That’s a misreading, not a correction.

There weren’t really any Spanish pilgrim settlers—a very specific type of colonizer—just conquistadors, and a bog standard extractive colonial empire.

Sorry but you are mentioning a common historical missconception perpetuated in history because of competition, war and propaganda between the Spanish Empire and England (the sort of conflict and propaganda also evolved in the time, it is a complex topic)

Please check this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_legend_(Spain)

There is a lot of literature on the topic, so I won't discuss further.

I’m not quite sure what 17th century intraeuropean propaganda has to do with Andalusian conquistadors not being separatist English puritans, have you misread my comment as well?

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