FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
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Europeans were never exposed to various diseases, while Native Americans were exposed to curable diseases
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Since Native Americans were never exposed to the diseases like Europeans, they did not have medicine to cure them.
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While most Europeans had built up resistance to various diseases form exposure over hundreds of years, Native Americans did not have resistance.
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Since there were less people in the Native American population, a larger percentage of their population died
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which of the following statements best describes the effect disease had on European and Native American populations? Native American populations were decimated by diseases that had been brought by the Europeans.
Detailed explanation-2: -Europeans carried a hidden enemy to the Indians: new diseases. 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.
Detailed explanation-3: -With the arrival of Europeans in the Western Hemisphere, Native American populations were exposed to new infectious diseases, diseases for which they lacked immunity. These communicable diseases, including smallpox and measles, devastated entire native populations.
Detailed explanation-4: -Among the “new” infectious diseases brought by the Europeans, smallpox was one of the most feared because of the high mortality rates in infected Native Americans. This fear may have been well-founded, because the Native Americans were victims of what was probably one of the earliest episodes of biological warfare.