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What diseases were the greatest threats to the native Americans?
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∙ 11y ago
Smallpox was by far the most dangerous disease, for native Americans, once it was introduced to the Western Hemisphere by European colonists.
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What was the greatest loss of life for Native Americans during the 16th-17th centuries caused by?
The greatest loss of life for the Native peoples in the 16th and 17th centuries would be smallpox. They did not have this natural immunity that the Europeans did and thousands died as a result.
Bad things people did to the Native Americans?
diseases
What were Native American threats in colonial Maryland?
The Native Americans in the Maryland area were acctually very friendly with the colonists. There were few and far spread conflicts between Native Americans and colonists in Maryland, overall.
What did europeans do to make Native Americans become extinct?
Many thousands of Native Americans were killed by diseases such as smallpox that was spread to them, intentionally and unintentionally, by white settlers.
What caused millions of deaths among native Americans in the years after Europeans arrived in the Americas?
Diseases, largely smallpox, brought by Europeans caused millions of deaths among the native Americans who had no resistance to these foreign diseases.
What event had the most immediate impact on the Native Americans who lived on the great plains?
The spread of European diseases had the greatest impact on Native Americans. Large numbers were wiped out by these foreign diseases they were unprepared to deal with.
What was the greatest loss of life for Native Americans during the 16th-17th centuries caused by?
The greatest loss of life for the Native peoples in the 16th and 17th centuries would be smallpox. They did not have this natural immunity that the Europeans did and thousands died as a result.
What did diseases as smallpox result in?
a decrease in native americans
Bad things people did to the Native Americans?
diseases
What did the first discoverers of puerto rico bring to the island?
Diseases that devestated Native Americans. Weapons that devestated Native Americans. Slavery that devestated Native Americans.
What happened to Native Americans as a result the gold rush?
Many Native Americans died from diseases brought by new comers.
Why did Native Americans die from disease?
It killed them because their bodies were not immune to the new diseases the new settlers brought with them from other countries.
Who spread the diseases to the native Americans?
The European explorers and colonists did
What did the native Americans die from after the Europeans arrived?
because of diseases
During the Spanish colonial period what group posed the greatest threat to settlers in New Mexico?
nomadic native americans
Who had the greatest cultural ramifications for Native Americans?
Indians
What diseases cause millions of native Americans to die?
common cold
