As the Native Indians came in contact with Europeans, they soon became interested in things that the colonists could provide. In a limited amount of time, the Indians became fascinated with the new material that the colonists provided and they soon started using these products daily. The Indian populations soon began to drastically decline as they came in contact with diseases like small pox, influenza, and measles. Indians never having encountered these diseases, did not have the antibodies to fight them. The introduction of European disease to American Indians was an accident that no one expected. Both the colonists and the Indians could not identify of why the Native population was declining so quickly. The Europeans soon came to a conclusion
