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Identify the clues in your reading that point to the conclusion that the Native Americans living in Patuxet were killed by the Smallpox disease before the Pilgrims arrived?

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A - Native Americans in New England were not very numerous but they had a healthy population level.

B - Several European explorers (and their crews) began to explore the area in the sixteenth century. These Europeans had contact with Native Americans and spread Eurasian diseases like smallpox to them.

C - Native Americans did not have antibodies for these Eurisian diseases, and the vast majority of them perished because of them.

D - When the Pilgrims arrived in 1620, the Native American population was minimal.

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