Daily reminder that the "natives" only exist because white people felt like preserving them and their culture. They were dying out before the settlers reached the country.
Our new data-driven best estimate is a death toll of 56m by the beginning of the 1600s – 90% of the pre-Columbian indigenous population and around 10% of the global population at the time.
Daily reminder that the "natives" only exist because white people felt like preserving them and their culture. They were dying out before the settlers reached the country.
Could you provide some links to read up on this?
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short version is that bacteria and viruses don't wait around when they're inadvertently introduced into an area that has no defense against them.
Thanks, very good article on what should be well known facts.
I thought you had something new pre introduction of European pathogens.