minus-squarextr0n@sh.itjust.worksto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•RulelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·7 days ago95% might be high but close. Maybe 85% is more accurate? Cook and his men also brought syphilis and mosquitoes so fuck those dudes right in the ear. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2015/04/06/native-hawaiian-population/#%3A~%3Atext=By+Swanson's+estimates%2C+1-in%2CSwanson's+estimates+have+some+caveats. By Swanson’s estimates, 1-in-17 Native Hawaiians had died within two years of Cook’s arrival. By 1800, the population had declined by 48% since Cook set foot on Hawaii. By 1820, it had declined 71%; by 1840, it declined 84%. linkfedilink
minus-squarextr0n@sh.itjust.worksto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•posture rulelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·29 days agoI don’t know what else we could expect from a SpaceNoodle. linkfedilink
95% might be high but close. Maybe 85% is more accurate?
Cook and his men also brought syphilis and mosquitoes so fuck those dudes right in the ear.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2015/04/06/native-hawaiian-population/#%3A~%3Atext=By+Swanson's+estimates%2C+1-in%2CSwanson's+estimates+have+some+caveats.