The Columbus Exchange was a very negative event that had many impacts on natives for what I can see. A very important and major impact this caused was a spread of a disease called smallpox. This disease infected many people part of their community as lead to death in many causing there population to decline quickly. People have even been said to believe that 90% of the natives who got infected with this disease died which can show that it was very deadly. Lucky we do not have to worry about this horrible disease.
Answer:
Themselves
Explanation:
This is the only reflexive pronoun that would work here.
What the excerpt is trying to convey is that, with the current generation we are so preoccupied with own self-interests. We value vanity, self and glory without considering the individuals we face as we walk, as we talk and as we engage. The passage reinstates that individuals have to get back and introspect about not their own gratifications and egotistical desires but the welfare with others, even though it is innate and inevitable that we always point to the ego.