But was it not a genocide of the Indians? (Just a question, don't kill me...:o) gen·o·cide   noun  the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.     I don't believe it qualifies as genocide because it was never the Euros intention to systematically exterminate every single indian. Whenever they met resistance from the indians while trying to settle America they would fight. That's not genocide, that's war. More of them died from disease than from fighting anyways. And as we all know this was not intentional biological warfare, it was completely unintentional that isn't the Euros fault, just a tough break for the natives. So it was not genocide.