While the English colonists of the 1600’s did not start the blatant man slaughtering of Native Americans that would occur later in American history, other factors such as diseases and the new populace of foreign animals, helped jumpstart their plans for a systematic eradication a couple of centuries earlier. One of the main exports brought in by the colonists were weapons, however the deadliest weapon that they introduced to America were prevalent Eurasian diseases such as malaria, however, it only regressed the Native American population because unlike their European counterparts, who “could ship in new colonists rapidly. The Indians could not. If a substantial fraction of their population was malarious, it would have limited their ability to attack the colonists” (Mann 6). After dealing with malaria for several centuries, the Europeans became much better at adapting to it, however, the Native American’s lack of experience…show more content… Therefore, the drastic drop in the Native American population (caused by malaria) made it very hard for their hunter-gatherer societies to survive as they not only depended on other tribes for trading, but the lack of people also led to a lack of resources foraged for their own tribe. And while the Native Americans tried to create a method to maintain their fragile livelihoods, the colonists took advantage of their dwindling numbers and mercilessly drove the helpless population out of their lands, only making the bid for survival a more arduous task. But even for those Native Americans that were able to survive the deadly malaria outbreak, life was still not easy for them, as the colonists' introduction of domesticated animals, such as pigs and horses, to the mainland, increased the competition for
