“在那些日子里一切都好,我们百病全无,而白人的到来改变了这一切。我们的贫穷开始了,战乱开始了,受苦受难开始了。”这段由17世纪初玛雅人写下的诗句,被频繁引用,作为欧洲对美洲灾难性征服的有力佐证。对于印第安人来说,更具杀伤力的是随他们而来的完全陌生的疾病。据估计,在欧洲移民初到美洲的100年里,因染病而死的印第安人占印第安人数的90%至95%,人口由5000万下降至400万。 Everything was fine in those days, and we were sick, and the arrival of whites changed all that.Our poverty began, the war began, and the suffering began. “” This Maya, by the early 17th century The poem, written down frequently, is cited as a corroborating evidence of Europe’s cataclysmic conquest of the Americas. For Indians, the more lethal is the complete strangeness with them. It is estimated that during the first 100 years of European immigration to the Americas, Indians who died of illness accounted for 90% to 95% of the Indian population and the population dropped from 50 million to 4 million.