FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
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They didn’t
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They wiped out 75-90% of the Europeans
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They wiped out 75-90% of the indigenous people
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They helped the natives beat the Spanish
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Detailed explanation-1: -Colonization ruptured many ecosystems, bringing in new organisms while eliminating others. The Europeans brought many diseases with them that decimated Native American populations. Colonists and Native Americans alike looked to new plants as possible medicinal resources.
Detailed explanation-2: -Many Native American tribes suffered high mortality and depopulation, averaging 25–50% of the tribes’ members dead from disease. Additionally, some smaller tribes neared extinction after facing a severely destructive spread of disease. A specific example was what followed Cortés’ invasion of Mexico.
Detailed explanation-3: -Native peoples had no immunity to Old World diseases to which they had never been exposed. European explorers unwittingly brought with them chickenpox, measles, mumps, and smallpox, decimating some populations and wholly destroying others.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1837–38, smallpox killed up to 50 percent of the North American Plains Indians. Most historians now agree that over a period of about 300 years, about 90 percent of New World peoples died of Old World diseases or related causes such as lack of care and starvation.