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ParanoidObsessive posted...

By the time the British, French, Dutch, and others started establishing colonies a hundred years later, they were showing up in places that had already been annihilated by disease. Which made it a lot easier to establish footholds because there was no one left to fight them over the land (and a lot of the land was already cleared and previously cultivated, which made it easier to establish farms and towns than it would have been in complete wilderness).

I think that is where I mixed up things, putting them and Columbus closer together in time in my head, thinking the pandemic happened before Columbus, instead of because of him.

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