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During the Spanish colonial period, what group posed the greatest threat to settlers in New Mexico?

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Spanish missionaries

Russian traders

ranchers in Texas

nomadic Native Americans

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Nomadic Native Americans

They frequently raided Spanish settlements and caravans (notably Apache and Comanche raids), posing the main security threat to colonists in New Mexico.