Don't forget about the infectious diseases that the Europeans brought with them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_disease_and_epidemics#Effect_on_

Don't forget about the infectious diseases that the Europeans brought with them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_disease_and_epidemics#Effect_on_population_numbers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_disease_and_ep... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_smallpox#Epidemics_in_the_Americas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_smallpox#Epidemics_... > After first contacts with Europeans and Africans, some believe that the death of 90–95% of the native population of the New World was caused by Old World diseases. It is suspected that smallpox was the chief culprit and responsible for killing nearly all of the native inhabitants of the Americas.