I feel like this article that talks about microbes answered the driving question on how the natives and the europeans had impacted each other. They impacted each other with giving each other there sicknesses which caused many deaths in both sides. With the microbes the article talked about how one side wouldn't get the certain sickness because they were around it for centuries, as the side that wasn't around it for centuries it went rampant. Over time these microbes had brought down many cultures and we have lost their languages and their cultures. One of the biggest ways that the microbes had impacted a civilization was the aztecs. They had got smallpox, from cortes. The small pox and the lack of resources, it caused the empire to
