History of the United States I / Unit 3 USH1 0303 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Timucua Collapse
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The idea
The Timucua numbered about two hundred thousand before contact, fifty thousand by fifteen ninety, and one thousand by seventeen hundred.
In practice
European diseases causing those losses far more than Spanish military action.
Where people slip
Catholic priests then forced the survivors, demoralised and reeling from catastrophic losses of family and community, to convert.
Your place on the trail
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