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The entire population of North American in 1600 is estimated at 1 million. So there were not millions dying.

Initial contact with Europeans introduced a large number of diseases to the native population. The East Coast of the continent was devastated, and the Pilgrims arrived to find abandoned villages and a very low native population.

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