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The article isn't even focusing on that, AFAICT. > It's the UCL group's estimate that 60 million people were living across the Americas at the end of the 15th
by wutbrodo 7y ago
The article isn't even focusing on that, AFAICT.
> It's the UCL group's estimate that 60 million people were living across the Americas at the end of the 15th Century (about 10% of the world's total population), and that this was reduced to just five or six million within a hundred years.
The only thing that was that early, that rapid, and that devastating was the diseases introduced by early European visitors that preceded their colonization by decades and leagues.