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历史学家经常把欧洲对新大陆的征服当作一项政治军事活动。但是如果退一步进行远观的话,我们会发现这一观点事实上忽略了许多重大问题,比如美洲印第安人在前哥伦布时期的影响,特别是美洲印第安人的粮食种植、美洲印第安人在美洲许多大型哺乳动物的灭绝中所起到的作用。此外,就是几千年以后旧大陆流行病对美洲印第安人的毁灭性影响。笔者认为,欧洲人对征服新大陆所作的标准解释忽略了旧大陆人抵达美洲这一核心问题,主要是人口统计方面的问题。
Historians often regard Europe’s conquest of the New World as a political and military activity. However, if we take a long way to go, we will find that this view in fact overlooks many major issues, such as the impact of American Indians during the Pre-Columbian period, especially the planting of Native American Indians, the large number of American Indians in the Americas The role of mammals in extinction. In addition, it is the devastating impact of the epidemics of the Old World on American Indians thousands of years later. The author believes that the standard interpretation made by Europeans toward the conquest of the New World ignores the core issue of the arrival of the Old Chinese in the Americas, mainly demographic issues.