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It was actually somewhat the other way around though. Less than 5 years after the pilgrims made landfall in Massachusetts 96% of the Native American population had already died out. In the years before a sailor went up the East coast described it as heavily populated and so full of bonfires you could smell the smoke from hundreds of miles out.

The actual estimated population of the land that would come to encompass North America was nearly 100 million(whereas Europe’s entire population at the time was in the neighborhood of 70 million). As the plague swept across the nation there was about a 90% mortality rate. So where we teach all of our kids in school that we won because of superior technology and better culture the reality is that the only reason the Indians fell as quickly as they did is because in the early periods of Industrial Era Europe the streets would be covered in crap(literally) and people would live in such close quarters that it was a biological imperative to have a strong immune system.

Basically, it’s the not the culture or the tech that made taking down the Indians so easy, but the fact that we were a society of chimps playing and working in nothing but our own crap and industrial fumes.

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Put an earbud facing inwards on either side of your lips(just on the cusp of in your mouth), play a song with a wicked non-vocal, skip to it and mouth words with the earbuds still in the sides of your mouth.