# Americas: Census at contact myth **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [April 14, 2011, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americas-census-at-contact-myth/578309 "2011-04-14T00:45:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 47
**Author:** ![RedSwinglineOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a9adbd/32.png) [@RedSwinglineOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedSwinglineOne)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americas-census-at-contact-myth/578309/47 "2011-04-14T16:30:16Z")
> [@Blake](#): > > Which begs the question, what precisely Pinguin thinks happened to all those people. They certainly weren’t killed through force since there were never enough Europeans in the Amazon or Great Plains region to kill that many people. So what does he think happened to them? Did they all move back to Atlantis? Did the 20 Europeans kill tens of thousands of Indians? I don’t know whether it is considered poor form to intruduce quotes from another thread, please correct me if it is… From “What if all continents had been in regular communication since ancient times?” > [@What if all continents had been in regular communication since ancient times?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-all-continents-had-been-in-regular-communication-since-ancient-times/578053/19): > > It is hard to believe educated people gives so much credit to the idiotic theory of the diseases, invented by Europeans and Americans to hide the genocide that happened in the Americas. > > Yes, blame germs, not the European invaders! --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americas-census-at-contact-myth/578309)._