History of the United States I / Unit 3 USH1 0339 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Disease as the Greatest Impact
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The idea
The anchor calls disease perhaps European colonisation's single greatest impact on the North American environment.
In practice
Epidemics claiming seventy-five percent of Native populations along the New England coast between sixteen sixteen and sixteen eighteen.
Where people slip
The very young and the elderly faced the highest mortality, with profound intergenerational consequences for knowledge and leadership.
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