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I did say settlement or other prolonged contact
It's the prolonged/repeated contact that's what I was pointing out, and in cases like Pardo (created a settlement, went on a two-years inland journey) and De Soto (five-years inland journey) are certainly textook case of "prolonged contact".
They cannot in an intellectually honest argument be compared to Columbus landing, being around a particular region for a brief visit, then moving on with his ships to another region, which was the nature of early coastal exploration.
I'm not aware of any similar prolonged efforts prior to settlement in South America (and Settlement was a mere twenty years after Columbus), so thats why I used those dates.
It's the prolonged/repeated contact that's what I was pointing out, and in cases like Pardo (created a settlement, went on a two-years inland journey) and De Soto (five-years inland journey) are certainly textook case of "prolonged contact".
They cannot in an intellectually honest argument be compared to Columbus landing, being around a particular region for a brief visit, then moving on with his ships to another region, which was the nature of early coastal exploration.
I'm not aware of any similar prolonged efforts prior to settlement in South America (and Settlement was a mere twenty years after Columbus), so thats why I used those dates.