USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -During their travels, European explorers unknowingly spread diseases such as measles and smallpox. Although most Europeans recovered from such illnesses, American Indians often died because they had never been exposed to these diseases.

Detailed explanation-2: -New diseases were introduced into Latin America by European explorers. These diseases included smallpox, measles, whooping cough, and influenza. Native Americans had no immunities to these diseases, and died by the millions.

Detailed explanation-3: -Native peoples of America had no immunity to the diseases that European explorers and colonists brought with them. Diseases such as smallpox, influenza, measles, and even chicken pox proved deadly to American Indians. Europeans were used to these diseases, but Indian people had no resistance to them.

Detailed explanation-4: -Diseases brought by Spanish missionaries killed many American Indians. American Indians were moved to the coast to make room for the missionaries. Fighting broke out among American Indians over trade with the missionaries. American Indians starved because buffalo were wiped out by the missionaries.

Detailed explanation-5: -Europeans forced the natives to change their civilization to match the modern world. In the process, local traditions, cultures and customs were lost. Some critics have charged that the Spanish mission system forced Native Americans into slavery and prostitution, comparing the missions to “concentration camps.”