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Two of the major European diseases that devastated Native American polulations after 1492?
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 9y agoAmong the major European diseases that devastated the native American population after 1492 were measles, malaria, and Tuberculosis. However, it was small pox which decimated entire villages.
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∙ 11y agoThe Native Americans were exposed to diseases such as syphilis, small pox, yellow pox, etc.
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∙ 14y agoSmallpox was the worst.
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∙ 14y agosmallpox & influenza
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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.
How had africans built up immunity to European diseases?
Family
What was the result of the deadly diseases brought to the New World by Europeans?
europeans took advantage of native american societies weakend by disease
What is the scope and significance communicable diseases?
The scope and significance of communicable diseases is that they are all illnesses that are caused by some kind of infectious agent. Communicable diseases are also called infectious diseases (or transmissible diseases).
Why are communicable diseases potentially more dangerous than non-communicable diseases in a community?
Because non-communicable diseases are not passed from one person to another - communicable diseases are.
Name one of the major European diseases that devastated native American populations after 1492?
Smallpox
Which of the following describes a difference in how the Age of Exploration affected Africa and the Americas?
African communities were not devastated by European diseases as American communities were.
Why did Europeans begin relying on African labor for their plantations in the Americas?
Indigenous populations in the Americas had been devastated by European diseases.
How did the European diseases affect the culture of the American Indians?
European diseases significantly reduced the population of American Indians, leading to cultural disruption and loss of traditional knowledge. The loss of elders and healers had a profound impact on their societies, weakening social structures and altering cultural practices. Additionally, the devastation caused by diseases further marginalized indigenous communities and contributed to the decline of their cultural heritage.
What devastated the Inca empire?
Internecine warfare preceded the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors in 1632, and the epidemics of European diseases began to affect the defeated empire in 1632 and 1633.
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 more native American than Europeans?
European diseases killed so many Native Americans because the natives had no natural immunity. It is surmised that hundreds of thousands died.
What killed millions of native after the europeans came?
C.Disease
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 caused most Native American deaths in the era of European exploration?
diseases carried over by the europeans
The Indians who traded with the Dutch in New Netherlands were devastated by what disease?
Different epidemics tended to take their toll on Native American populations who had no natural immunity to European-intorduced diseases of which, there were many. Some of the bigger ones included, measles, mumps, and smallpox. Common colds and flus like influenza did damage as well.
Why were European diseases devastating to the people in America?
If by people in America you mean "Native Americans", they had not developed the immunities to European diseases, over the centuries that Europeans had developed. Diseases such as measles, diphtheria, even chicken pox, not to mention smallpox were devastating to the American Indian. It is probable that more Native Americans died of European diseases than died in the many battles with the white man.
