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The Connecticut River Valley is in turmoil …

Years: 1636 - 1636
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The Connecticut River Valley is in turmoil in the 1630s.

A series of smallpox epidemics over the course of the previous three decades has severely reduced the indigenous populations, due to their lack of immunity to the disease.

As a result, there is a power vacuum in the area.

Tension have also increased as Massachusetts Bay Colony began to manufacture wampum, the supply of which the Pequot had controlled up until 1633, when an epidemic had devastated the entirety of the region's native population.

Historians will estimate that the Pequot had suffered the loss of eighty percent of their entire population.

At the outbreak of the Pequot War then, the Pequot may number only about three thousand.

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