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To: Flag_This

“The Indians didn’t have any defense against a host of diseases that arrived with the Europeans.”

Sure. But they were already dying in large numbers of SOMETHING.


29 posted on 12/05/2013 7:39:31 AM PST by TheThirdRuffian (RINOS like Romney, McCain, Christie are sure losers. No more!)
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To: TheThirdRuffian
"Sure. But they were already dying in large numbers of SOMETHING."

People tend to just say "smallpox", but more mundane things like the flu killed off large numbers of the native populations also.

31 posted on 12/05/2013 2:16:03 PM PST by Flag_This (Liberalism: Kills countries dead.)
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