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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 17 points 17 hours ago

Explanation: For those of you who are not aware, when Europe made contact with the Americas, it unwittingly brought along a whole host of diseases that Native Americans did not have any natural resistance to. For this reason, disease swept through the Americas after the European arrival, causing the total collapse of several Native civilizations, and leading to a massive depopulation and a near-post-apocalyptic landscape, with entire villages being killed or abandoned due to these new diseases.

Naturally, this depopulation and destabilization did the Native Americans no favors when Euro colonists came sniffing around to claim 'virgin' lands.