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No, "Europeans and Their Diseases" Didn't Kill the Native Americans

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No, "Europeans and Their Diseases" Didn't Kill the Native Americans

Agricultural Collapse Did

Johannes Mathijs Koenraadt
Aug 12, 2023
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Legend has it that European explorers brought their diseases to the Americas, which caused the collapse of, say, the Incan and Mayan civilizations. The image of “filthy Europeans” going around the world killing “more advanced people” just to “steal their resources” has been with us ever since. More likely, American civilizations collapsed due to the nat…

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