What are the theories of how many of the first Americans were killed from European diseases? Write a 2-3 paragraphs reporting on the epidemics that occurred and which people groups were wiped out.
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Catherine
1/15/2014 12:51:05 am
In 1492, the Native Americans were a thriving people. There were about 60 million people and they were healthy and strong from living off of vegetables and game. The Native Americans were physically fit and had immunities to many diseases. However, that same year, European explorers came to the Americas to expand their land. This is where it all went downhill for the healthy and happy Native Americans.
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Elwin
1/15/2014 12:51:33 am
In olden ages, back to the time of the First Americans, many epidemics occurred. The cause of this was because of the Europeans. At first, this all started during the Columbian Exchange, and that’s how the Europeans made contact with the Native Americans. Although, they brought goods and treasures with them, the most risky and harmful thing they had was their diseases. Native Americans had no defense, whatsoever, against the Europeans. One of the most dangerous diseases was smallpox, which was fundamental in most of the epidemics.
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Jamie Chau
1/15/2014 12:52:52 am
The first people to settle in America were our ancestors, the Native Americans. It is believed that Native Americans reached America by crossing a path that lead from Asia to Alaska. From there, the Native Americans spread off into the rest of the lands. Native Americans were indeed successful in their beginning days in America. Unfortunately, there were many factors that lead to an end of these people. One of the biggest causes of their downfall was disease. These epidemics, brought over by European explorers, killed millions of Native Americans.
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Janiece Luu
1/15/2014 12:53:20 am
The European explorers were the ones who began paving the road to building our country by traveling to North America overseas. When reaching America, the explorers saw that there were already inhabitants on the land, the Native Americans. Both sides benefited from this new connection, such as discovering new animals and crops. There was a major downside to this trade, because diseases were also things that were exchanged in this process.
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Mackenzie
1/15/2014 12:53:37 am
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Angel G.
1/15/2014 12:54:24 am
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John Nguyen
1/15/2014 12:55:03 am
In 1492, when Vasco Nunez de Balboa sailed for the New World, he didn’t know that he and his crew had brought diseases. This was the start of many epidemics that were to come.
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Kevin Bao
1/15/2014 12:55:26 am
The Europeans traveled to the Americas, what they called a “New World”. When they arrived in the Americas the Europeans came into contact with the American Indians. The American Indians were interested in what the Europeans had to offer for trade. Although neither group realized how severe the diseases brought by Europeans would affect the American Indians. As the Europeans began to visit one village after another the diseases spread quickly. The Indians weren’t resistant to these diseases which began to kill them. These diseases carried by the Europeans were smallpox, influenza, measles, and chicken poxs were deadly towards the American Indians. The diseases also spreaded through trades between Americans Indians. The Europeans eventually realized that they were bringing deadly diseases to the American Indians as each village died off one by one. Neither the Colonists or Indians had any idea of how to cure these diseases, and how to stop it from spreading. Eventually, the diseases stopped but only about ten natives remained. Soon after the American Indians began to repopulate and receive trade from the Europeans. There might have been other things that cause the wipeout of the Indians that are still unknown, and speculated.
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Robert S.
1/15/2014 12:55:47 am
What are the theories of how many of the first Americans perished by European diseases? Many theories relate back to that the immigrants from the European continent brought the diseases with them to the New World. Because many of the Native Americans never interacted with new people, they were a target for viruses such as smallpox. Smallpox was such a powerful disease that at time, many people died because there was no treatment nor vaccines.
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Lindy Chen
1/15/2014 12:56:02 am
When the Europeans arrived in America, They noticed other humans who lived there before they came. They were the first Native Americans. They looked healthy; however, neither the Native Americans or the Europeans knew that there would soon be a deadly epidemic that would kill many. Before the Europeans arrived, the Native Americans had a healthy life and according to http://nativeamericannetroots.net/diary/325, if you were to compare the Native Americans to the Europeans, the Native Americans had a better diet and were less likely to face starvation and hunger.
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emily
1/15/2014 12:56:10 am
The theories on how Native Americans were killed by European diseases is true. Native americans were always isolated from other tribes so when the Europeans came, they brought diseases that Natives were not use to. According to Cecil, Native americans had died from the European disease but the Europeans died from their own diseases. Historian Thomas Berger said that the native americans had a healthy life but some lived in an unsanitary places. Berger claims that they also brought some diseases with them.
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Brandson Le
1/15/2014 12:56:10 am
Many centuries ago there were American settlers, they were intelligent people who had many skills. These settlers originated from Asia and they came across the ocean during the ice age and ended up in Alaska around the 1500s and over hundreds of years these people moved south down to South America and established their own tribes.
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Kristine
1/15/2014 12:56:38 am
Native Americans had excellent health, as their hunting, gathering, and agriculture supported their physical needs. However, Europeans brought deadly epidemics that the Native Americans were not immune to. While many of these people may have been able to be victorious in a war, they had absolutely no defense to the diseases. This made the land clear for settlers that came later on.
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hector benitez
1/15/2014 12:56:52 am
There are many diseases and one that killed the most American’s was the plague. It spread a crossed the whole world. It killed millions of people and they died because they did not have any medicine to cure themselves. The pledge was carried by people, rats, and mosquitos and when the people went to go trade their goods to the other countries they carry the diseases with them.
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Steve Yee
1/15/2014 12:56:58 am
Long time ago there was a group of people called Native Americans. These people were said to be originated from Asia. According to NCPedia, the explorations of the early American Indians brought them all around the world. They traveled either by foot or from boat from Asia. As they settled down in the areas they traveled to, they built towns and traded over long distances with other tribes.
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Calvin Lam
1/15/2014 12:57:05 am
Who were the First Americans to arrive in North America? Some may say Europeans, however it was the natives from Asia. These people either traveled on foot or rather boat to America. The Natives were known to have been there as long as fifty thousand years ago or even more archeologists suggested. After long years of peace and prosperity Europeans began exploring and soon “discovered” America in the 1500s.
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Kobe
1/15/2014 12:57:06 am
European explorers came to North America around the 1500s. The Europeans who came to North America didn’t know they had these hidden diseases. Some of these diseases include small pox, influenza, and measles. Most of the Native Americans weren’t immune to these diseases. In fact, they were highly vulnerable to diseases. Diseases were spread through direct contact with each person. Diseases also spread as people traded with each other. Sometimes whole villages would be wiped out instantly from these diseases. In the 1600s, over 70 percent of Native Americans in New England died from smallpox.
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Sierra
1/15/2014 12:57:21 am
European explorers came to the “New World” in the 1500s and before that time they hadn’t known about this continent. They had many discoveries and met people when they set foot on land. This New World was actually very old to the people they met in North America. To this day we call those people American Indians. American Indians have been on the continent for fifty thousand years before the Europeans came. American Indians were the first Americans but, they didn’t come to the continent all at once. It is thought that the first Americans arrived at different times, over several thousands of years, they journeyed on foot or by boat.
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Stephanie
1/15/2014 12:57:27 am
By Europeans coming to the Americas diseases came with them and took the lives of many Native Americans.Epidemics spread and wiped out many Natives from the eastern seaboard to the Rocky Mountains. The Natives could not and did not know how to fight these diseases forcing them to die no later a year before. Some Natives thought Europeans’ attack of diseases were intentional since most of them were cleared and made room for the settlers.Most of these diseases included smallpox, cholera,scarlet fever,and measles which Natives were defenseless to.
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Kelly Chan
1/15/2014 12:57:36 am
Native American Indians are believed to have travel to the Americas over the baring land bridge from Asia. We don’t know why exactly the Indians came to our land but when they got here they realized that there were tribes here. In 1493, Columbus set foot on what he thought was Japan but was actually the Americas, he named the land San Salvador and soon many other European explorers followed. When he first set foot on the Americas was greeted by a tribe of Indians. As many other explorers followed Christopher’s examples diseases were brought along with them. The disease brought over to the Americas were new to the Indians so many tribes started to loose their populations quickly.
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Matthew Ibarra
1/15/2014 12:57:46 am
The first Americans
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matthew zeng
1/15/2014 12:57:46 am
There are two theories of how the European defeated the First Americans. When Christopher Columbus discovered America he also brought diseases that was contagious and infected the Native Americans.
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sage
1/15/2014 12:57:54 am
Natives were victims of the disease when the settlers came. England did not know that the natives weak against their sickness. So instead the sick change the war against settlers and natives, because the sickness killed more people than the weapons the enemy use.the settlers were use to the sickness so they lost barely any soldiers while millions of natives were killed. if the sickness didn't kill all the natives the they probably might had won.
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Jackie Wong
1/15/2014 12:58:05 am
Around the mid 1500s, a group of Europeans landed in North America. When Europeans first arrived in North America, they never imagined that there would be tribes of people living on that land. These tribes of people became known as Native Americans, and they lived all over the continent of North America. As the Europeans lived on this new continent, with the help of the Natives, the population of the Natives decreased greatly.
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Michael B
1/15/2014 12:58:11 am
Theories of First Americans Death
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SAMMI WONG
1/15/2014 12:58:11 am
There have been many stories of how European diseases killed the Native Americans. Over the decades, anthropologist and historians have been discovering the deaths of many members of the tribe. Now it’s known that a millions of people died because of smallpox, measles, and cholera, that has been brought over to America.
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Ramirez V.
1/15/2014 12:58:25 am
The first Americans that were exposed to European contact contracted various diseases. Most were dormant meaning that they weren't active. The infected indian then travelled back to his tribe infecting everyone who he came in contact with. Days later the diseases were no longer dormant and killed their hosts. As years past by, millions die because of the lack of immunities.
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Brianna Terzyan
1/15/2014 12:58:35 am
Before the Europeans came to America, Native Americans were the first Americans. There were many well-known tribes in America. Native Americans were thriving settlers. They lived in peace. European settlers came and they had to make peace so they Native Americans can make room. More Europeans came and then Native Americans were missing.
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damion wong
1/15/2014 12:58:36 am
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Lindley Lee-Niegas
1/15/2014 12:58:56 am
European explorers came to America around the 1500s. These explorers had never even heard of this strange new continent, though it was actually thousands of years old. There the explorers encountered foreign animals, plants, and even people, who were the first American Indians. The American Indians, too, had never encountered the European explorers before. That was why the European diseases hit them so hard.
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Lily Trang
1/15/2014 12:59:13 am
Native Americans did not get diseases very often, especially diseases that caused them to die easily. As the Europeans had to urge to discover land during the Columbian Exchange, the Europeans brought over many deadly diseases such as: smallpox, measles, scarlet fever, typhoid, typhus, influenza, pertussis, tuberculosis, cholera, and chickenpox. Some other people believed that the Native Americans refused vaccination because they had suspicion on the Europeans. The Native Americans thought that the Europeans could not be trusted.
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Samantha P.
1/15/2014 12:59:26 am
Before the Europeans, the Native Americans were living a healthy and tranquil life. After the Europeans the story was entirely different. Many of the Indians started to die off, however it wasn’t death from physical violence. They suffered death from a silent killer: European epidemics.
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