• MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    8·
    2 days ago

    I have a suspicion that if it weren’t for all the disease the colonizers would have destroyed them anyway.

    Also nobody intentionally made them deathly ill? Smallpox blankets.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      You’re not wrong.

      However, it is worth pointing out that the documented “smallpox blankets” stuff happened in the 1700s and 1800s, which was already a century or two after the continent had been greatly depopulated by diseases spread unintentionally.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Measles, syphillis, rubella, mumps, chickenpox even. chickenpox is especially dangerous to adults who never had it.

    • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      I never said nobody intentionally made others sick. I said most were not intentionally made sick. Most Natives died before even seeing Europeans.