Even more than the obvious effects on the people, the appearance of europeans forever altered the history of the First Americans. It is almost analogous to the possible effects of an alien race appearing on Earth. Everything they knew, had known and were still to discover altered irrecoverably.
Perhaps one of the most insidious effects was probably that most who died from the appearance of Europeans and the resultant epidemics they caused perished without ever seeing the cause. The conquistadors tell of areas called "desplobado" or simply uninhabited although it appears that they should have people living there.
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