1610 — BOOM! — 50 million American Indians died of smallpox (”exterminated”).
That’s their claim? And this massive decline in New World agriculture left evidence in Antarctica?
Riiiiiiiight.
“1610 BOOM! 50 million American Indians died of smallpox (exterminated).”
That’s interesting, because most historians put the pre-Colombian population of North America at 20-30,000,000, and some put it at much less.