European Colonization of The Americas Killed 10 Percent of World Population and Caused Global Cooling

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2019

In this article, the author points out the first European contact in 1492 brought diseases to the Americas which devastated the native population, and the resultant collapse of farming in the Americas was so significant that it may have even cooled the global climate.

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