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When Europeans started to explore and populate the Americas, they brought with them several deadly diseases that killed off most of the Native American populations, such as smallpox, scarlet fever and tuberculosis. This is known as the Native American Population Crash.

In order to build sustainable colonies in the Americas, most European powers (Spain, Portugal, France and England) brought slaves from Africa to man the fields, mines and eventually, shops and factories in the New World.

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