Since the beginning of time, diseases have existed and troubled humanity. Just alone, the extremely contagious and deadly disease, smallpox took the lives of 400 million until it was eradicated in 1977. For decades, smallpox infected thousand of native americans who was extremely vulnerable to the disease brought by early settlers from Europe. The european contact brought huge epidemics, plowing through villages and the population of the native americans, causing panic and widespread hatred towards to settlers from some native tribes. However, the rich history of this unique disease has influenced many characteristics in the development of America with it’s atrocious epidemics, and the roles played through wars and conflicts in history.
