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How did the interactions between Europeans and Native Americans impact each other?

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Europeans carried a hidden. enemy to the Indians: new diseases. Native peoples of America had no immunity to the diseases that European explorers and colonists brought with them. Diseases such as smallpox, measles, and even chicken pox proved deadly to American Indians.

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