The “discovery” of America unleashed horrors. Europeans embarked upon a debauching path of death and destructive exploitation that unleashed murder and greed and slaver

But disease was deadlier than any weapon in the European arsenal. It unleashed death on a scale never before seen in human history.

Culturally and geographically isolated, some combination of limited resources, inhospitable weather, food shortages, and native resistance drove the Norse back into the sea.

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