The native population of the Americas dropped from almost 57 million to 5 million. What was the single most important reason for this?

Starvation caused by the influx of western settlers

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Epidemics like small pox, measles etc. which came from Europe

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Wars and conflicts with the western settlers

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None of these

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Epidemics like small pox, measles etc. which came from Europe

The epidemics like small-pox, measles etc. which came from Europe resulted in large-scale deaths of the native American population.

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