User blog comment:JorgeGG/Dar al-Islam (or Al-Umam Al-Muttahida)/@comment-1630894-20111007021534/@comment-32656-20111013063716

The natives would kill them all. Without the weapons advantage that Cortez et. al. had otl, it thier fluke of a conquest, no chance of conquest, and regular tribes stand a very good chance of beating them in battle.

As for Zheng He, those books that say things like that, Fed, are so discredited that it's not even funny. Not one bit of that is actually true.