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. Syphilis is thought to be one of those illnesses. Besides that Europeans had already experienced their people dying from smallpox etc, until those with immunity were left to repopulate creating a more immune society. It just happened long ago. It might seem like the diseases only hurt indigenous people but thats really just recency bias.
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