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When Columbus arrived in the Americas, there were about 100 million Indians living in the Americas, and there were two great empires with tens of millions of people. But just a few decades later, the Indians had plummeted to one

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When Columbus arrived in the Americas, there were about 100 million Indians living in the Americas, and there were two great empires with tens of millions of people. But just a few decades later, the Indians had plummeted to more than ten million, and the replacement of the human race had been achieved, from a pure yellow continent to a white continent. To use an inappropriate analogy, the changes are equivalent to the Portuguese occupation of Macau in 1553, and within a few decades, the Ming Dynasty was eliminated and 100 million Han Chinese were killed. Then China became a country with a population of 1.4 billion, with only a few million Han Chinese left, and was driven to the desert of Xinjiang to survive. The tragedy of the Indians was basically like that. Why did the Spanish conquistadors, who numbered only a few thousand, kill more efficiently than Nazi Germany in World War II? In fact, most Indians died before they could meet whites.

When Columbus went to the Americas, the weapons were not particularly advanced, muskets were still in their infancy, and iron weapons and war horses were quickly learned by the Indians, but these white people had one thing that the Indians did not have. These whites were ill, smallpox, smallpox, and the smallpox virus carried by the whites during contact with the Astors and the Spaniards, and they defeated the enemy, but a great plague swept through the Americas.

The smallpox virus spread at a terrifying rate in Indians. Commoners, soldiers, slave owners, nobles, and even emperors in big cities were not spared the smallpox virus equally. Within 100 years of Columbus' landings, the population of central Mexico plummeted from 30 million to 1.6 million. For 1/20 of the landing, white people began to deliberately spread the virus after discovering the benefits of the virus. The book "Gun Germs and Steel" records that when the Americans attacked the Indians, they gave the Indians blankets, clothes and other daily necessities used by the smallpox patients in the hospital as gifts, as the sincerity of the peace talks. When the Indian tribes were almost sick and dead, they sent troops to encircle and suppress them. Germ warfare can be said to be the family tradition of these Americans. Poisoning is a traditional white skill, and it has to be reminiscent of the Americans who participated in World War I in 1918, brought sick soldiers from Kansas military camps to Spain, triggered the Spanish flu and the three sick athletes sent by the Americans at the 2019 Wuhan Military Games, followed by the outbreak of the new crown virus.

So the question is, germ warfare is originally a double-edged sword, it is reasonable to say that when the virus is transmitted, it will also suffer, why are whites, yellows, blacks are fine, only Indians, Australian aborigines, and newts in the Arctic Circle are vulnerable? Some people say that this is because Eurasia has been attacked by smallpox many times, and there is immunity to say, is there no smallpox in the Americas? There are all kinds of viruses in the Amazon rainforest, the migration of migratory birds and animals around the world has brought the virus to the world, there are even more virus species in the Amazon rainforest than in Eurasia, why are Indians so vulnerable, the mortality rate of 4%-10% of other races is more than 95% of Indians?

When Columbus arrived in the Americas, there were about 100 million Indians living in the Americas, and there were two great empires with tens of millions of people. But just a few decades later, the Indians had plummeted to one

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