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What impact did European contact have on Native American population between 1500 and 1620?

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it decreased and very significantly so!

Most of native Americas died of diseases brought by Europeans; but some were also killed directly by the Europeans. Many also mixed with the Europeans (by marriage or rape...) so there was also a mixed indigenous-white population.
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