... Columbus did land in the Americas, the indigenous people were very friendly, and even according to Columbus ""They brought us barrels of cotton thread and parrots and other little things which it would be tedious to list, and exchanged everything for whatever we offered them"(Early American slavery quotes). However, Columbus did not have same mentality, and his ... home. The death tolls from the newly introduced European diseases often reached 80-90 percent (Native American Netroots). Some of the diseases that killed of the natives were: bubonic plague, scarlet fever, cholera, influenza...

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