COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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Became allies with the Europeans and lived in Harmony
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Population increased
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population decreased due to interactionwith new diseasees
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Became British
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Detailed explanation-1: -Diseases like smallpox, measles, typhus, and cholera quickly spread and depleted Native American populations. The disease spread quickly because Native Americans were not immune to these diseases. As a result, up to 95% of the indigenous population in the Americas died.
Detailed explanation-2: -American Indian populations plummeted after the arrival of Europeans in the New World, largely because of the spread of smallpox, typhus, measles, and other infectious diseases.
Detailed explanation-3: -Settlers killed off huge numbers of people in conflicts and also by spreading disease, which reduced the indigenous population by 90% in the century following Christopher Columbus’s initial journey to the Americas and Caribbean in 1492.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.