Question

what happened to indigenous peoples in the americas after 1492?
○ they began growing tea and coffee.
○ most perished from disease.
○ their population decreased by nearly twenty percent.
○ they began selling horses for gold.

Explanation:

After 1492, European contact brought diseases (like smallpox, measles) to which Indigenous peoples in the Americas had no immunity, leading to massive population loss. Tea and coffee were not native to the Americas and not adopted as a primary crop by Indigenous groups at this time; population loss was far greater than 20 percent; horses were introduced by Europeans, not sold by Indigenous peoples for gold initially.

Answer:

B. Most perished from disease.