The story of The Great Dying of the Americas

1492–1650

The Great Dying of the Americas. The collapse of the Native population of the Americas after 1492. Estimates of the loss run from 40 to 95 percent.

1502

The Spanish Crown intervened in the Great Dying of the Americas. Its governor of Hispaniola, Nicolás de Ovando, massacred 600 to 700 Indians of Higüey in 1502, per Ostler.

1542

The Spanish Crown intervened in the Great Dying of the Americas. Banned Indian slavery in 1542; colonists found ways round the ban, per Reséndez.

The Great Dying of the Americas appears in Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492, Virgin Soils Revisited, The Other Slavery and Genocide and American Indian History.

The Great Dying of the Americas involved Hispaniola and Central Mexico.

The Great Dying of the Americas followed from Old World diseases in the Americas and War, enslavement and famine after 1492.

According to David S. Jones, Alexander Koch and Jeffrey Ostler, each in its own account.

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