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How did contact with European explorers and exposure to diseases affect the native American population?
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The native population was drastically reduced by the introduction of Old World diseases. The exact percentage is unknown.
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What disease carried by European explorers and settlers killed up to 50 percent of the Native American population?
Smallpox and other plague like diseases. Also guns
What caused massive declines in Native American population prior to the seventeenth century?
European explorers and settlers brought diseases such as smallpox to America and the Native peoples did not have an immunity to them and it dramatically reduced their populations.
European settlers carry diseases with them that made many American Indians die?
yes, the diseases were transferred via trading. The diseases drastically decreased the population.
Why did european diseases kill so many aztecs?
Because European explorers carried the diseases with them on their voyages. The Aztecs bodies had no way of fighting an unknown disease, so many of them simply died from the exposure.
What was most responsible for the decrease in the Native American Indian population in the settled areas of North America during the Colonial period?
Disease. By the time the first colonists arrived, early visits by fishermen and explorers had exposed the natives to European diseases which devastated the populations along the East coast of North America.
What disease carried by European explorers and settlers killed up to 50 percent of the Native American population?
Smallpox and other plague like diseases. Also guns
What caused massive declines in Native American population prior to the seventeenth century?
European explorers and settlers brought diseases such as smallpox to America and the Native peoples did not have an immunity to them and it dramatically reduced their populations.
Who spread the diseases to the native Americans?
The European explorers and colonists did
European settlers carry diseases with them that made many American Indians die?
yes, the diseases were transferred via trading. The diseases drastically decreased the population.
How did European diseases impact natives of Georgia?
The epidemic disease was the cause of population decline of the American natives due to their lack of immunity to the new diseases brought from Europe.
Disease brought to Australia by European explorers?
Diseases that affected Aboriginals that also began wiping them out
Why did european diseases kill so many aztecs?
Because European explorers carried the diseases with them on their voyages. The Aztecs bodies had no way of fighting an unknown disease, so many of them simply died from the exposure.
What were some real challenges that 15th century European explorers faced?
they faced no food, diseases, and pirate attacks
Why did epidemic diseases have such a devastating effect on the Native American population in the first years of contact?
European disease had a devastating effect on the indigenous population of Native Americans. Smallpox, ravaged whole communities and is thought to have been a much more direct cause of the precipitous decline Indian population.
What was most responsible for the decrease in the Native American Indian population in the settled areas of North America during the Colonial period?
Disease. By the time the first colonists arrived, early visits by fishermen and explorers had exposed the natives to European diseases which devastated the populations along the East coast of North America.
Why did the population of central Mexico decrease so sharply?
The population decreased sharply due to war, slavery and European-brought diseases such as smallpox, for which Native American inhabitants didn't have any immunity.
What are three problems the early European explorers faced?
Exotic diseases, malnutrition, language barriers, hostile locals, navigation.
