HISTORY
NEW GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
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Question
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The native population experienced population loss due to disease.
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The native population collaborated with aliens to build spaceships.
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The native population increased due to trade with the Europeans.
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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: -Eurasian diseases such as influenza, pneumonic plagues, and smallpox, in combination with conflict, forced removal, enslavement, imprisonment, and outright warfare with European newcomers reduced populations and disrupted traditional societies.
Detailed explanation-3: -Diseases such as treponemiasis and tuberculosis were already present in the New World, along with diseases such as tularemia, giardia, rabies, amebic dysentery, hepatitis, herpes, pertussis, and poliomyelitis, although the prevalence of almost all of these was probably low in any given group.
Detailed explanation-4: -Smallpox and other contagious diseases brought by European explorers decimated native populations in the Americas. Estimates of the population of pre-Columbian America range wildly. Some argue for as much as 100 million, some as low as 2 million.
Detailed explanation-5: -The voyages of explorers had a dramatic impact on European trade. As a result, more goods, raw materials and precious metals entered Europe. New trade centers developed, especially in the Netherlands and England. Exploration and trade led to the growth of capitalism.