Why were European diseases such as smallpox, typhus, and influenza so devastating to Native populations?
A) The Native populations had been isolated from Europeans for so many centuries that they had no immunities to European diseases.
B) Europeans, Africans, and Asians shared the same environments and over time built up immunities to the diseases.
C) Epidemic diseases could be spread to Native communities by germs, meaning that infection did not need physical contact between individuals.
D) Each statement is correct.
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