90% of the population of the Americas died after first contact, making it the largest mass death in history with 10% of the global population dying.
European colonization of the Americas killed 10 percent of world population and caused global cooling While Europe was in the early days of the Renaissance, there were empires in the Americas sustaining more than 60 million people. But the first European contact in 1492 brought diseases to the Americas which devastated the native population, and […]