Political Junky
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It's odd that you'd compare tobacco to smallpox laden blankets. No one had any idea about the harm in tobacco, smallpox infested blankets was genocide.The different native tribes had diseases and different languages too. They gave each other diseases, stole each others land, and did not learn each others languages.
The pilgrims were just another tribe. A more technologically advanced tribe.
They didn't give each others diseases on the order that European settlers did and they did learn each others languages. Sure they stole land from each other. You're one for three, that IS bad.
As far as technology goes that didn't help them get their own food, they needed help. They did have guns and were hard workers, however. Remind you of anyone?
Native Americans gave the White Man the glorious gift of TOBACCO.
It killed far more white people than any disease that might have been contracted from a blanket.