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Perhaps 90% of the indigenous population died in the years after the arrival of Europeans and Africans to the Americas, mainly due to disease. True False

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the correct anser is true

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True. The newcomers brought diseases that weren't present before, so the indigenous people had no immunity to them. The animals they lived with and the food they ate and the conditions they came from put many diseases on them
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