Practice question · Estimate
Within a century of contact, roughly what percentage of the Americas’ population died, mostly of disease? Set the slider.
Estimate on a scale from 0% (0) to 100% (100).
Hints
- Estimates are contested, but the mainstream figure is shockingly high.
- Roughly nine in ten.
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90 (answers within ±8 count)
Why
On the order of 90%. Whatever the exact figure, and it is genuinely debated, the scale makes the conquest first a biological catastrophe and only second a military one.
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