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History Essay Topic: Effect on natives of the virus' and diseases brought into the New World by the Europeans. Thesis Statement: Individual viruses have evolved interesting and unique lifestyles. Battles have been won or lost when a particular virus infected one army but not the other. It was the introduction of these viruses by the Europeans which depleted and weakened the native population in the early 1700's, making the European conquest into Canada an easy task. Historian Alfred W. Crosby, while not minimizing the European exploitation of the first nations, suggests that it was the unplanned European biological attack on the Americas that accounted for most deaths. The Amerindians, cut off from the rest of the world, had developed no immunities to the epidemic diseases experienced by Eurasians. They were familiar with veneral syphilis, polio, some varieties of tuberculosis, hepatitis, and encephalitis. But they had no experience of and no immunities to smallpox,...

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