Trav'ling Canuck
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Not only the cultures/polities were gone, but also most of the people. European diseases apparently arrived with the Spanish expeditions, and whereas they reported villages as far as the eye could see on both sides of the river, by the time the next 'wave' of Europeans arrived (French explorers after 1690) they found the area on both sides of the Mississippi depopulated and practically deserted.
An aspect of the real-world age of exploration that most certainly won't be modelled in Civ 7.