Diseases, post-contact
At a glance:
- Series: American Indians Ready Reference
- Categories: Medicine, Health
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians, Epidemics, Diseases, Demographics, Population
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950, American History 1951-present, American Colonial History (1607-1775), American Revolutionary History (1776-1788), American History 1816-1855, American Civil War & Reconstruction Era (1856-1877), American History 1878-1900, American Indian History, American Early National History (1789-1815)
- Geographical Location: United States
Article abstract: Within decades after contact with Europeans, Native American societies experienced rapid population declines; although the reasons for the demographic collapse of native North America are complex, a prominent factor in that decline was Old World infectious diseases, introduced by European explorers and settlers
After the arrival of Europeans, the estimated aboriginal population of native North America began to decline. The Spanish intrusion into the Southwest and Southeast, circa 1520, launched a series of lethal epidemics that infected various...
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