Christianization

=== Disease ===
A catastrophe was wrought upon the Amerindians by contact with Europeans. Old World diseases like [[smallpox]], [[measles]], [[malaria]] and many others spread through Indian populations.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Pringle |first1=Heather |title=How Europeans brought sickness to the New World |url=https://www.science.org/content/article/how-europeans-brought-sickness-new-world |website=Science News |publisher=Science |access-date=7 August 2023}}</ref> Historian [[Barry S. Strauss|Barry Strauss]] and the coauthors of ''"Western Civilization The Continuing Experiment"'', have stated that, "In most of the New World, 90 percent or more of the native population was destroyed by wave after wave of previously unknown afflictions. Explorers and colonists did not enter an empty land but rather an emptied one".{{sfn|Strauss|Noble|Cohen|Osheim|2005|pp=230, 454}}
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