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But they were poor and the colonists were rich before they ever came into contact.

Sometimes true, and sometimes not. The Incas and the Aztec were rich.

Gonna need a source on this one.

Europe built stuff like this long before colonization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_Cathedral

In Europe such constructions happened in many places, no other part of the world built similar things. No, not even Asia, Europe were ahead of them at this point.

The ancient mosques? The pyramids of Egypt? The pyramids of South America? The Aztecs built their capital on a lake. The Taj Mahal, Kailasa Temple, any of the temples in ancient Babylon and Mesopotamia, and countless other monuments built all over the world (not super familiar with the far east)?

This is the peak of eurocentrism and ignorance of the rest of the world. You honestly believe on Europe was building giant monuments?

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