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What do you think? Do you think you should take care of nature or do you agree with the colonists?
Another big problem was all the diseases the colonists brought to the native tribes. They brought cholera, measles, chickenpox, smallpox, and many others. These were new to them, so they were totally defenseless against them. As a result of this, they started dying in great numbers.
The Native Americans knew they had the disadvantage of the more technologicaly advanced colonists, whose only objective was to conquer and colonize the newly discovered land.
For the Europeans, colonization meant disregarding the native language, religion and culture and teaching theirs.
The Spaniards were among the first colonists that arrived to what it is now the United States. A few years later people from England and France sailed to what was known as the New World.
The Native Americans began to diminish, and were later forced to move out of their land and into much smaller reservations.
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