Americans. The American Indian Holocaust, known as the 500 year war and the World’s Longest
Holocaust In The History Of Mankind. It started with the invasion of European diseases such as smallpox, measles, influenza, whooping cough, diphtheria, typhus, bubonic plague, cholera, and scarlet fever. which the Native Americans had no immunity to. According to the historian, Jeffrey Ostler, in
1491 there was an estimated 75 million people that live in the Western Hemisphere and an estimated
80% died from the diseases that were brought to them.
Disease wasn't the only thing that was killing off the Native Americans. In just the United States alone
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