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> no horses and very little disease resistance From what I read, this is an oversimplification to the point where it removes agency from Native Americans and m

• tzs 3y ago
  By the time the European colonies on the east side of North America had established themselves and sorted out things like independence and were ready to start expanding west around 95% of the Native population to the west had died off due to pandemics of non-native diseases. The Native tribes had had extensive trade networks that spanned the continent, which unfortunately for them inadvertently also spread those non-native diseases and so the massive die off reached nearly everywhere--even places that European explorers has never come anywhere near. I don't see how it removes agency from Native Americans to note that after suffering what was in effect nearly an extinction level event it was not hard for European invaders to conquer the survivors.