Should be worth noting that the Aztec and Inca Empires collapsed rather suddenly, while the northern tribal communities endured for centuries longer.

Of course, the native tribes also ended up getting turned on one another through much of the early conflict, with France and England effectively playing both ends against the middle by arming and instigating tribal wars over territory. In much the same way that modern western policy revolves around pitting Sunni against Shia in the Middle East and Hindu against Muslim along the Pacific Rim and conservative against liberal throughout the imperial core, it has been the people turned against themselves that consistently prove the most effective assets in capitalist dominion.