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[Mike M (the other one)]

(01-26-2016, 08:48 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Native Americans were systematically targeted and killed to the point that an estimated 80-90% of their population was destroyed. 

That's genocide. 

False.

The biggest killer of the Native Americans was disease. Diseases killed an estimated 95% of the pre-Columbian Native American tribes between 1492 and 1700. It is the same thing that happened to the Incan's.

Early European explorers brought with them Small Pox, Measles, Influenza and Typhus and the Native Americans had never been exposed to any of those before so they had very little genetic immunity to them.

Early settlers/explorers also tried to use the Native Americans as slaves, but they were terrible slaves. Since they were familiar with the lands, they escaped easily. To combat that, the English/French/Dutch started shipping them to the Caribbean Islands. By 1700 Barbados was no longer accepting Native American slaves. They died too quickly from the diseases that they kept being exposed to and they found a better supply of slaves with the birth of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in the mid to late 1600's.