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What happened to most of the 12 million inhabitants that lived here (now USA) ,when we "Whites" came here in the 1600s ?

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  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    the White man has murdered or caused the deaths of between 50 million and 1 Hundred Million since Columbus

  • 6 years ago

    Three words: unintentional biological warfare. They had no resistance to diseases from the old world.

    It didn't help when the "whites" intentionally shot them, etc. but they never would have been able to get the upper hand without so many native Americans dying from disease.

  • 6 years ago

    Go ask their pitifully few surviving descendents who were relegated to (and still live in ) the concentration camps that the US calls 'Indian Reservations.'

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    They went to Europe to fill in the population gap.

  • 6 years ago

    What's your point?

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    All your question about race and about whites.

    You are a racist, correct? Obsessed much?

  • ?
    Lv 6
    6 years ago

    Our lovely ancestors murdered most of them.

  • gerald
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    they weren't very good capitalists they joined the forgotten poor of history

  • 6 years ago

    Most were killed.

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