Hispaniola’s indigenous population collapsed from 750,000 to 29,000 within two decades

Evidence

Central Mexico alone supported some thirty million people. At the same time, the population of Europe as far east as the Ural Mountains was around fifty million. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 46 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: European colonization triggered demographic collapse and forced removal that shattered existing Indigenous societies — The Social Consequences of Colonialism; The first European settlement in the Americas quickly collapsed into violence with indigenous peoples; Precolonial Mexico had thirty million people — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 46 (+3 more)

Related

• Precolonial Mexico had thirty million people (similarity 0.89)
• Hispaniola’s native population collapsed within decades of Spanish conquest (similarity 0.87)
• Mexico’s pre-conquest population exceeded twenty-five million (similarity 0.86)
• Hispaniola’s native population collapsed from 100,000 to a few hundred by 1570. (similarity 0.85)
• Mexico’s native population collapsed from 25 million to about one million in nine decades (similarity 0.84)
• Spanish colonization reduced Hispaniola’s native population from 300,000 to under 500 in two decades (similarity 0.82)
• The first European settlement in the Americas quickly collapsed into violence with indigenous peoples (similarity 0.82)
• Hispaniola’s indigenous population collapsed from hundreds of thousands to near zero within decades (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• The first European settlement in the Americas quickly collapsed into violence with indigenous peoples #corroborates (0.55)
• Precolonial Mexico had thirty million people #qualifies (0.30) — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 46