FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICANS
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Question
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What happened to the American Indians after the European settlers arrived?
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They lived throughout Virginia
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Most were forced inland
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They lived only in the Piedmont
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They moved to England
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Throughout the period of European colonisation, millions of Native Americans were killed, either in fighting or by outbreaks of European diseases to which their bodies had no immunity, such as smallpox.
Detailed explanation-2: -When the Europeans arrived, carrying germs which thrived in dense, semi-urban populations, the indigenous people of the Americas were effectively doomed. They had never experienced smallpox, measles or flu before, and the viruses tore through the continent, killing an estimated 90% of Native Americans.
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