[SunkenCiv]

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Thanks Thunder90. Bernal Diaz was involved in a couple of unsuccessful expeditions before going to Mexico with Cortez. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.

[muawiyah]

Like to remind everybody, those failed settlements left their livestock behind. The cows, horses, chickens, dogs, rabbits and cats did well!

[colorado tanker]

It was a very painful process of trial and error for Europeans to figure out how to plant successful colonies in areas that did not have precious metals to exploit. How to deal with Indians. What crops to grow. What cash crops to grow. Jamestown darn near didn’t make it. Plymouth wouldn’t have without Indian help, showing them how to grow crops in sandy soil, which flummoxed the English.

[BenLurkin]

I fear the same fate will befall the first colonies on Mars.