Conquered indigenous populations recover or vanish depending on circumventing their crisis.

Evidence

An example (among many) of this effect is provided by the catastrophic collapse in the Maori population of the islands of New Zealand in the nineteenth century after the arrival of British settlers and troops. At one time it even seemed possible that the Maori would eventually just fade away and disappear. But then, when the crisis was in part overcome, the Maori population began healthily to climb back. In Tasmania, on the other hand, in the same general part of the globe and over similar periods, there was no recovery from decline, and the native Tasmanian population first sank into a depressed shock and then disappeared altogether. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 89

Categorization

• XREF: The Maori/Tasmanian contrast parallels the discussion of Native American population collapse after European contact in works like 1491.