
The Effect of Diseases on Indigenous Americans Following European Colonization in the Americas
Much has been said regarding the fate of Indigenous American tribes during the period of colonization of European persons in what is now the United States. However, scientists as well as historians have made additional conclusions on the impact of early European colonization in the Americas, which is sometimes referred to as The Great Dying. The advent of of Europeans to the Americas, particularly during the 1400-1600s is a bottleneck event. "A population bottleneck or geneti