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I'd like to note that pre-Columbian contact estimates for the population of the Americas vary wildly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_the_Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas
I'd like to note that conquistadors actively spread disease amongst natives. They knew what they were doing.
I mean, even if they didn't, the mass enslaving and slaughter performed by the conquistadors is enough to prove that they were evil genocidal fucks.