What occurred during the four centuries of attempted European conquest in the Americas mer

What occurred during the four centuries of attempted European conquest in

the Americas merely extended the continuum of history into a new arena. The

successes of these new arrivals and their descendants, consistent with the

Line historical tendencies in human behavior, came at the expense of people whose

(5) kinship-based tribal system still operated on communitarian, if exclusive,

principles. Only the tribes of the southern hemisphere had become fully settled

and had entered into their own era of empire-building. Unfortunately, the

European people had achieved both technological and organizational superiority

as these characteristics applied to the art of warfare whereas the tribes of the

(10) southern hemisphere had numbers in their favor but had no time for the adoption

of European weaponry or strategy, a situation that contrasted sharply with that

in North America where the tribes gained considerable access to modern

weapons and were more flexible in their strategies. The two most important

advantages the European-Americans possessed in the north was the endless

(15) stream of migration that more than replaced the population lost during warfare,

and a production system centered in large and relatively secure population

centers.

It can be inferred from the passage that from a historical perspective, the European conquest of the Americas can be viewed as

A．most similar to earlier successful conquests

B．most different from earlier failed conquests

C．most dissimilar to earlier successful conquests

D．most analogous to earlier failed conquests

E．unlike any earlier conquests in history, successful or not