We often hear indigenous peoples died from disease introduced by European settlers in North and South America. If indigenous peoples there were susceptible to eradication by unfamiliar disease why is the same not true of disease and death to settlers? Or is it true but more easily overcome?
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Some did but basically, the European settlers lived in absolutely filthy, crammed, disease-riddled cities so when they two communities met, the Europeans had way more noble diseases to offer than the Americans did. Europe had large-scale farming, which led to grain stores, which led to rats, and insects that spread diseases really quick.
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