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by iaejpiejf23 4188 days ago
> The disease hypothesis puzzles me because it cannot explain the reality of such countries

The disease hypothesis is bullshit. Some retard wrote a silly book about it and nytimes pushed it like it was gospel.

The royal proclamation of 1763 set the border between the colonists and the indians at the appalachian.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Proclamation_of_1763

Even after disease supposedly wiped out the indians, we could only push the indians past the appalachians in the 1760s.