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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They absolutely died of disease. A lot.
Scotland tried set up a colony in Central America only for most of the settlers to die from disease. The failure bankrupted Scottish finance so much that they were eventually forced to accept joining a union with England.
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