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Q: What is a European disease that killed many Indians?
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How did disease affect the European colonization?

it spreaded throughout the colony and killed many civilians.


What was the nature of the exploitation of Indians in the Americas?

Many of the Indians were killed by European diseases, but those who survived, were captured and were forced into slavery. The Indians were forced to work on plantations and many Indian women were forced to marry Spanish settlers unwillingly .


What problems did the presidio face?

The presidios faced many problems such as disease that killed the Indians that they taught, Indians rejecting mission life, Indians using the missions as forts of protection from enemies, and running out of supplies at the presidios.


How did European explorers effect Indians?

European explorers affected Indians in many ways. For one, the explorers tried to convert the natives to Catholicism and other Christian based faiths. They also took over native land, while spreading disease and other European bases ailments. The explorers, however, did educate many natives, as well as taught them about sailing, fishing, technology, and farming.


Killed millons of native Americans after 1492?

Diseases that were brought to the Americas from Europe. Americans had no immunities from those diseases. What would make a European mildly sick would kill people that had no resistance at all.


How many Indians were killed in the old west?

Not many, when you compare that number to the number of Native- Americans killed.


What impact did the spread of disease have on the Indians?

Killed them and decimated whole tribes. Many tribes wee given items with the smallpox bacteria on them so they would get sick and die. This was a form of bioterrorism .


Was juan de padilla killed by the kaw Indians?

Juan de Padilla was killed by Indians, but there are many uncertainties surrounding his death. Nobody knows for sure exactly when and where he was killed, and it is uncertain which tribe actually killed him.


How did Many Of The Indians Were Killed during Columbus?

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Why did the Cayuse Indians attack the Whitman mission?

When a measles epidemic broke out at the mission in November 1847, many of the Indians were killed while the white newcomers survived. The Cayuse suspected that the Whitmans and their foreign religion were the cause of the fatal disease. In retaliation, the Whitmans and eleven other whites were killed by the Cayuse, and the mission was burned down.


Did explorers kill Indians?

Yes! Christopher Columbus and many others killed Indians to get their land and supplies.


What killed more native Americans war or disease?

what killed them is a disease called the black pluge it was a bad disease people had killed many people . :D hope it helps a lot <3