SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
COLONIES OF FRANCE ENGLAND
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Native Americans grew wealthy by trading with colonists.
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Native Americans killed many French colonists.
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Native Americans died out in large numbers from disease.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
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.
Detailed explanation-3: -Perhaps the single greatest impact of European colonization on the North American environment was the introduction of disease. Microbes to which native inhabitants had no immunity caused sickness and death everywhere Europeans settled.