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Estimates vary wildly on what percentage of the natives died from european diseases. There's just too little information on pre-Columbian populations.

For comparison, estimates of the deaths from the Black Plague in Europe are 30% to 60%. It's a huge error bar, despite having a lot of written records that survived.



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