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European diseases, particularly those brought to the Americas during the Age of Exploration, were most pronounced after Christopher Columbus's voyages in 1492. These diseases, including smallpox, measles, and influenza, decimated Indigenous populations throughout the 16th and 17th centuries. The spread of these diseases was a significant factor in the dramatic decline of native communities, as they had no prior exposure or immunity to such illnesses.
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What two diseases did the aboriginals get when the European settlers came to Australia?
Aborigines were subjected to more than two diseases with the start of European settlement. Aboriginal populations were decimated by diseases such as smallpox, venereal disease, syphilis, tuberculosis, measles, and influenza.
The role of European diseases in the depopulation of the New World was?
significant.
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 so many aztecs?
Because European explorers carried the diseases with them on their voyages. The Aztecs bodies had no way of fighting an unknown disease, so many of them simply died from the exposure.
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.
The Aztecs and Incas had no resistance to?
European diseases
What is the best reason why so many native people in Australia died from European diseases?
The native people had never been exposed to European diseases and had no immunity.
What was the reason for the decline of the aztec's?
Exposion to European diseases.
What two diseases did the aboriginals get when the European settlers came to Australia?
Aborigines were subjected to more than two diseases with the start of European settlement. Aboriginal populations were decimated by diseases such as smallpox, venereal disease, syphilis, tuberculosis, measles, and influenza.
What was the first and perhaps most profound result of the meeting of native and European cultures?
importation of European diseases.
Why were europeans diseases a problem for native cultures?
Because they had no immunity to the diseases, since those diseases had never existed among them prior to European colonization.
Who spread the diseases to the native Americans?
The European explorers and colonists did
The role of European diseases in the depopulation of the New World was?
significant.
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.
Why did European diseases kill more native than Europeans?
European diseases killed so many Native Americans because the natives had no natural immunity. It is surmised that hundreds of thousands died.
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 were native Americans more likely to die from diseases the European settlers brought to America than the settlers themselves?
Native Americans were more likely to die from the diseases that European settlers brought to America because they had less immunity to these diseases than the settlers did.
