ELi5: Why didn’t europeans die too upon contact with new civilization?

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It is widely known that upon contact with new civilization, the indigionous people can be wiped out because they are not immune to our sicknesses; wouldn’t they also have some illness that europeans aren’t immune to?

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They did. For example Ile-Saint-Croix was a disaster. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port-Royal_National_Historic_Site](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port-Royal_National_Historic_Site)

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