Why did the indigenous population of central america decline with the arrival of europeans?
a. they died fighting the spanish.
b. european diseases killed a large portion of the population.
c. they emigrated to mexico.
d. they emigrated to south america.

Many of the indigenous population of Central America declined with the arrival of Europeans as a) they died fighting the Spanish. Many of the indigenous groups which inhabited what is now modern-day Central America waged many battles with the Spanish settlers and this greatly decreased the population of Natives living in the various nations.

The three steps before modern english were indo-european, germanic, and old english. as peoples moved around the eurasian continent, their languages changed. throughout the ages, the languages became more specialized. as english has many germanic influences, it is easy to see how this was one of the forebears. also, old english was one of the main ancestors of the modern language, spoken in the 5th through about the 13th centuries.