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Isn't that because Europe was able to bounce back while in the Americas, the diseases were immediately followed up by the European colonizers who didn't give th
by irrational 5y ago
Isn't that because Europe was able to bounce back while in the Americas, the diseases were immediately followed up by the European colonizers who didn't give them time or space to repopulate?
- AlotOfReading 5y agoThat's exactly the point. Epidemic disease alone is an insufficient explanation for the demographic collapse of indigenous Americans.
- bobthepanda 5y agoIs it not? We have a more recent example in Hawaii. Hawaii was not subjugated by any foreign power until the 1890s. That being said, the Native Hawaiian population pretty much collapsed from a high of 300,000 in 1770 to 20,000 in 1920.
- irrational 5y agoYes, but guns are an insufficient explanation for the complete overthrown of indigenous Americans. Or even the primary cause.