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European explorers brought Infectious Diseases to North America which the Native Americans had no natural immunity against. Chicken pox, measles, and smallpox were common and rarely fatal among Europeans, but often proved deadly to Native Americans. Epidemics sometimes destroyed entire village populations. Some historians estimate that up to 80% of some Native populations died from European diseases.
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∙ 13y agoI believe you are referring to syphilis.
You should be aware that the theory that syphilis is an American disease that was brought back to Europe by early explorers is just one of several theories and not universally accepted.
Others believe that it has been in Europe for centuries and some say that some of the writings of Hippocrates describe syphilis.
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∙ 13y agoActually, it was the other way around. More disease was taken to the America's than given to Europe. The explorers brought STD's, small pox, flu, colds, and many other old world diseases to the Americas.
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∙ 13y agosyphilis
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∙ 13y agoSyphillis
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Sicknesses brought by European explorers that spread quickly and infected many native Americans?
Contagious Disease
What is the sickness brought by European explorers that spread quickly infected many Native Americans?
small pox and Contagious Disease :)
What brought European Explorers to come to Kansas?
Well, the first European Explorers to come to Kansas are Francisco Vasquez de Coronado in search for Quivira.
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.
What did Christopher Columbus contribute to America?
Columbus was the first of European invaders to North America. He contributed disease and death the Native Americans that he found and that other European explorers found. Discrimination and the loss of ancestral lands is what he brought with him. He was not a hero and actually was a mean greedy man. He cut the hand off of a Native American because the man only brought him a nugget of gold.
Disease brought to Australia by European explorers?
Diseases that affected Aboriginals that also began wiping them out
Sicknesses brought by European explorers that spread quickly and infected many native Americans?
Contagious Disease
What is the sickness brought by European explorers that spread quickly infected many Native Americans?
small pox and Contagious Disease :)
What is the sickness brought by European explorers that spread quickly and infected many native Americans?
small pox and Contagious Disease :)
What was the name for the sickness brought by the European explorers?
Smallpox.
What killed the people of the new world other than weapons?
Disease brought over to the Indians of South America and North America by the Spaniards and other explorers.
What is the sicknesses brought by European explorers that spread quickly?
Small Pox.
The horse was brought to north America by which explorers?
spanish
What brought European Explorers to come to Kansas?
Well, the first European Explorers to come to Kansas are Francisco Vasquez de Coronado in search for Quivira.
How did dogs get into the US?
Dogs were brought to the United States by European explorers and settlers.
Sicknesses brought by European explorers?
the european explorers spread malnutrition, (not enough nutritional food/water) malaria,(deseise carried in mosquitos) and scurvy (not enough nutrition. causes vomiting)
What was the most significant European export that explorers brought to the Americans and why?
When the Europeans arrived in North America there were no" Americans", but there were many native American tribes who were living there. They gave disease and death to the native Americans when they arrived. When they landed from the Old World to the New World they brought the export of disease that the populations they met hadn't been exposed to before. Smallpox, flu, STD's and other diseases were given to the New World and killed thousands.
