FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
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Question
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Devastation is what happened to the Native Americans when the Europeans took over their land. What does this work Devastation mean?
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to Farm
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to work together
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to start a war
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To cause great harm
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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: -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.
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