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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Because Europeans lived in big cities with high populations and contact with other peoples who also lived in cities was common.

Peoples living in small, more isolated communities don’t produce or spread many horrible disieses by comparison.

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