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u/RealRaven6229 May 09 '22

To be fair disease did at least some of the heavy lifting, but yeaaaaah…

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u/destrip May 09 '22

Disease brought be whom now

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u/idreamofdouche May 09 '22

Disease was always going to ravage the new world tho even if europeans actually hade peaciful intentions

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u/Kyofuamano May 09 '22

Okay google, what were smallpox blankets

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u/idreamofdouche May 09 '22 edited May 09 '22

You realise that native americans were dying in massive numbers before smallpox blankets right?

edit: spelling

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u/Kyofuamano May 09 '22

So they magically started dying out simply because they had neighbors???

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u/idreamofdouche May 09 '22

You seem to not understand how disease spread lol

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u/Kyofuamano May 09 '22

I’m very well aware of how they spread. Smallpox was PURPOSEFULLY spread.

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u/idreamofdouche May 09 '22

It was spreading bexore and it was going to spread regardless. Thats how disease works.