Could advanced but not so strong civilizations like the Mayans and the Muisca have had survived European contact? Thank you.
My thoughts too. There are many less advanced or less powerful nations in the Asia and Oceania that survived contact with the Europeans relatively unscathed at least until the 1800's. So my first thought was "yes, it's possible". But then these nations didn't have to deal with smallpocks nor with a colonizing nation who just years before ethnically cleansed its own homeland like the Spanish did.Probably not. European diseases devastated societies very badly. And meaning of colonisers was convert them to Christianity.
My thoughts too. There are many less advanced or less powerful nations in the Asia and Oceania that survived contact with the Europeans relatively unscathed at least until the 1800's. So my first thought was "yes, it's possible". But then these nations didn't have to deal with smallpocks nor with a colonizing nation who just years before ethnically cleansed its own homeland like the Spanish did.
I think pandemics are overestimated a little..
Mississippi and Amazon civilizations is destroyed by epidemic, even without war.
Very little evidence of that. Just the assumption that those cities were abandoned for that reason.
They have the archeology, including the graveyards.