The American Indians (both North and South) were doomed when the first European walked ashore and was greeted. The Indians and their ancestors had no exposure to European diseases and so, as soon as the European coughed, farted or offered his hand as a gesture of friendship, the match was lit.
The flame spread as Indians returned to their villages. It turned into a conflagration spreading in all directions slaying Indians before it. As the white man advanced, he sometimes found entire villages, sometimes entire civilizations, struck down where they stood: tools and implements scattered about among half-eaten bodies, dwellings, and crops in the field unattended,
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The fate of the American Indian was sealed by his/her geographical isolation. And the American Indian could give as well as get. Syphilis was a disease that was spread from the Americas to Europe.
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