[blam]

A couple hundred years later, these folks died in the millions too.

Historical Review: Megadrought And Megadeath In 16th Century Mexico (Hemorrhagic Fever)

The epidemic of cocoliztli from 1545 to 1548 killed an estimated 5 million to 15 million people, or up to 80% of the native population of Mexico (Figure 1). In absolute and relative terms the 1545 epidemic was one of the worst demographic catastrophes in human history, approaching even the Black Death of bubonic plague, which killed approximately 25 million in western Europe from 1347 to 1351 or about 50% of the regional population.

The cocoliztli epidemic from 1576 to 1578 cocoliztli epidemic killed an additional 2 to 2.5 million people, or about 50% of the remaining native population.

[colorado tanker]

Ward Churchill has this all figured out. The cause was "smallpox blankets" distributed by the U.S. Army.

(Don't bother telling him there was no U.S. Army in the 16th Century - you'd expect a fake Indian to produce fake scholarship.)

[RightWhale]

America hasn’t always been as attractive a place as it is right now. Ice sheets, asteroids, hurricanes, megavolcanos, plagues of all kinds, drought, earthquakes, etc. It’s probably going to come around again at some point.