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In 1548, Spanish historian Fernadez de Oviedo wrote " there are not now believed to be at the present time... five hundred left." what was he writing about?

Answer

He's talking about the Taino people of Hispaniola. There were a quarter of a million of them before the Spanish arrived. Within just fifty years, there were less than 500 people. They were swept from the face of the earth by slavery, European diseases, and genocide.

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