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The Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean islands discussed were politically ununified and lacked a significant military presence.
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“The island populations in the Caribbean,”
“what we now call Puerto Rico and Mm Hispaniola,”
“Cuba,”
“the peoples there were quite low on the tech tree,”
“were not unified,”
“did not have a significant military presence. Of course, on islands,”1:18:36Report a misattribution
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