Why were there no crippling diseases transferred from the New World to the Old World colonists?
Why were all the worst diseases found in the Old World and absent in the New?
Why were there no crippling diseases transferred from the New World to the Old World colonists?
Liam Ross
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Nathaniel Myers
Syphilis
Chase Ross
Close proximity to domesticated animals and large populations led to a huge amount of disease developing
Oliver Nelson
There were some bad diseases that got transferred over to the Old World, but the reason the Old World wasn't as horribly impacted was because people living there had stronger immune systems due to how interconnected they were. Through extensive land and sea traderoutes, China, Western Europe, and everywhere in between had essentially been connected on a microbial level since the days of the old Silk Road. The higher average population density of the Old World also created easier breeding grounds for bacteria, and thus required strong immune systems for any of the people who survived.
Jaxon Baker
A disease is usually more harmful if it is not meant for the host it is in. It wants the host to survive as long as possible to transmit as many germs as possible. So a cold intended for a human is a thing to deal with as a human and can make him chronically Sick. Sick but alive. A cold that is intended for a cow but ends up infecting a human is dangerous as it is too aggressive for the human to survive a long period.
Most diseases that killed the native tribes were originally animal diseases, old world human had been accustomed to. Since native Americans rarely had the extensive contact with animals, old world humans had, they couldnt have been carrying diseases like that. Thus the lack of killing new world diseases
Charles Bennett
Africa is the source of all disease, and is attached to the Old World.
Grayson Diaz
syphillys was called moctezumas revenge for a reason
Bentley Gomez
Woah, why have I never heard of the latter?
According to that graph it kill no more than 17 MILLION people.
Am I in real life?
Benjamin Sanders
Most plagues come from livestock diseases which transferred to humans
As the NW didn't have many domesticated animals which people lived in proximity with, as well as few densely populated cities, those plagues never got around to transferring to humans
Evan Reyes
Cocolitzli affected the natives only, though
James Parker
>Woah, why have I never heard of the latter?
Because most people's knowledge of New Spain ends with the conquests (at least the first phase, since the last Maya weren't conquered until 1697).
>this unnamed disease that killed Natives and Spaniards alike when it first appeared in 1545.
Evan Cruz
>Why were all the worst diseases found in the Old World and absent in the New?
White people have disgusting hygiene
Brandon Gomez
Most victims were natives
It's not like it got to Europe and killed millions there
Jose Perez
No
White people have the misfortune of having trade links with Chinese people, who have disgusting hygiene.
Brayden Cruz
The Medieval Chinese had better hygiene than Medieval Europeans. Medieval Europe probably ranked near the lowest in the world in hygiene at its time, below that of even Mesoamericans.
Owen Cook
>White people have disgusting hygiene
THIS.
Europe was a shit-infested breeding ground of diseases for most of its history.
Jacob Hall
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While there were a handful cities in the new world. Europe had much more.
Also the connection to the Orient and the diseases that could be cultured there and transferred along.
Jayden Young
>with Chinese people, who have disgusting hygiene.
Chinese literally bathed everyday and had cleaner cities while Europe to this day still has "once a week" mentality.
Only reason why plagues historically come from China is because whenever they go to war, shitloads of people die. Which is exactly what happened during the final years of the Song Dynasty during the Yuan-Song Wars.
Henry Lee
Delusional
Easton Brooks
Angel Nguyen
This is the most interesting video I've ever seen on Youtube. Thanks
Alexander Young
Deseases are memes to increase pre-european populations' numbers and create national stories about "very ancient states, destroyed by european invaders".
William White
The New World didn't congregate in huge cities.