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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I guess the fact that the only europeans initially exposed to new pathogens were the explorers and seamen who did travel there while the other civilizations were all exposed to the european ones, being in their actual homes.

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