Native Americans lacked the immunities the Europeans and Afr…
Native Americans lacked the immunities the Europeans and Africans had developed over centuries of deadly epidemics, and so when Europeans arrived, carrying smallpox, typhus, influenza, diphtheria, measles, and hepatitis, plagues decimated Native communities. Many died in war and slavery, but millions died in epidemics. All told, in fact, some scholars estimate that as much as ______________ of the population of the Americas perished within the first century and a half of European contact.
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