• titanicx@lemmy.zip
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    8 days ago

    It is possible 90% of certain tribes on the East Coast died of plague. However the vast majority of native Americans were slaughtered other ways.

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      8 days ago

      Over what time period are we talking though?

      Like the Wikipedia article says 10-100M and up to 95% died from plagues brought over from ~1500-1618, but I can’t tell if the sources are any good/reliable.

      Does this count or does it mean that of those who remained, a further 75% got genocided? Or is it referring to some specific even later genocide.