Perhaps 90% of the indigenous population died in the years after the arrival of Europeans and Africans to the Americas, mainly due to disease. True or false?

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21 February, 20:29

Perhaps 90% of the indigenous population died in the years after the arrival of Europeans and Africans to the Americas, mainly due to disease. True or false?

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Malone · Answer 1

This is true. People from the Americas weren't accustomed to germs and bacteria and viruses that we were immune to because of years of exposure and having a different immune system. That's why things like the measles completely ravaged them while white people couldn't be attacked by them because we were immune.