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Originally Posted by jmecklenborg
No, it didn't. Mexico, the rest of Central America, and what is now Brazil had very large native populations. North America was almost completely empty by comparison.
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even if that general dispersement was true i mean really how could you say empty with any certainty when estimates range wildly from 8-112M? basically no one really knows. most guesses are in the 50M range for all of the americas, which is similar to estimates for all of europe at the time. all you can say with certainty is its really one of the most unclear mysteries in archeology.
then you have the spanish giving natives the disease riddled blankets and the like, which other euros later took up the habit of doing. no question that killed millions instantly. and who knows what the vikings and polynesians gave them earlier? oh, and the vd the natives gave back to the euros in return doesn’t quite make up for this, does it?
