>>215961844
It wasn't 90% and Mexico had dealt with a lot of pandemics before. The God Chalchiuhtotolin was known for being prayed to in times of plague. It's why there are still a lot of people with native heritage and a lot of the countries have long pre-columbian histories and have that make up a lot of their culture. The spanish genocide was different as the spanish were more focused on destroying native culture entierly.
It's different in America because the Americans practiced setter colonialist genocide like Israel today.
>>215962018
It did destroy a lot of societies but the people were still there, they didn't die out, they formed new groups and then were the victims of us imperialism no matter how they tried to adapt.