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Native American Depopulation Case Study

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I completely agree disease was the key factor in the depopulation of Native-Americans in the Americas for the following reasons 1-These illnesses, such as Influenza, measles, chicken pox, mums, typhus, and smallpox known as European disease are infectious disease that spread in contact. Even though we have more sophisticated antibiotic today, doctors still struggle to treat them. It is understandable at the time of the Native American that those illnesses were fatal because the sanitation was very poor, and the health care was far developed. As a result millions died. 2- A native groups who live in the area of Mexico and the Caribbean were extinct within fifty years of their first contact with the Europeans. 3-Dominican Republic and Haiti
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