| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Smallpox, typhus, influenza, diphtheria, measles, malaria, and other epidemics swept in after European contact, felling a large portion of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, causing one of the greater calamities in human history, comparable only to the Black Death.[3] In North America alone, at least 93 waves of epidemic disease swept through native populations between first contact and the e
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