The role of European diseases in the depopulation of the New World was __________

A) relatively unimportant compared with other changes caused by European contact
B) significant, as smallpox and other diseases caused widespread death
C) far less important than the effect of New World diseases on the colonizers
D) of unknown dimensions since we have absolutely no data


Answer: B

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