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If you're asking about the decline in the indigenous population after the arrival of European settlers in the Americas, then five factors are as follows:
1. Diseases brought by Europeans decimated the indigenous population, since they had no natural immunity to viruses such as smallpox.
2. Many indigenous people were killed by the settlers, as they where no match for the guns and horses that the Europeans brought.
3. Many natives where forced into slavery and terrible living conditions, causing further death.
4. In some cases, the European conquers turned the indigenous tribes against each other, inciting further violence.
5. The displacement of Native Americans by settlers as they pushed further and further into the continent also resulted in a decline in the population.
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This is a citation from <em>The Constitution of the Iroquois Nations: The Great Binding Law, Gayanashagowa</em>. This Confederation consits of five indigenous North American nations (Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca).
This document was transmitted orally through centuries, and dates back to the 14th Century. It is also known as the "Great Peace" between these nations.
Matters of this Constitution consists of aspects of tribal and regional governance, social organization, rights and duties of leaders, protection of other rights, etc. It is believed that this constitution served as an influence for United States Constitution.
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There are three main sources of controversy involving his interactions with the indigenous people he labeled “Indians”: the use of violence and slavery, the forced conversion of native peoples to Christianity and the introduction of a host of new diseases that would have dramatic long-term effects on native people in
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In Greek societies, in almost all of them, only men were considered citizens. The treatment of women in Sparta was better than that of Athens, but even then, there were still limits. The generalized recognition of women as a political person occurred only in the twentieth century.
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