Explore how Spanish, French, and English colonization efforts transformed North America in the century after Columbus, each bringing different approaches that shaped the continent's future while devastating indigenous populations.
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The most devastating weapon in the European conquest of America wasn't the sword or the gun—it was invisible. Smallpox, typhus, and influenza swept through indigenous populations, killing between 90 and 95 percent of Native Americans within a century of first contact.
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I’m interested in the true, real history of the USA. What happened in the first 100 years after the continent was discovered?
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