I'm currently doing a project in school about the influence of the epidemics that killed a lot of the indigenous people of America on the success of the european settlers. It would be nice if any data on how many were killed by the epidemics exists. Does such data exist?
If you do a project about central and south america depopulation there is way more you should consider. Firstly, a native epidemic well describe in cleric's letters. Then massive suicide in group, abortion during and after pregnancy by mothers, and then european epidemics. Now we tend to consider that the epidemical impact on indian depopulation, is less than we thought. You can find most of your informations in clerics and monks letters to the King of all Spains, who described a situation of end of the world
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