How come European diseases didn't wipe out the west africans like it did the Amerindians

How come European diseases didn't wipe out the west africans like it did the Amerindians

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They were subjected to it during the initial release via Mediterranean trade

Africans and Europeans share a same genepool

What the forest kingdoms?

Africa was a much more potent disease hotbed than Europe, so

Actually they’re dealing with bubonic plague right now

Satan preserves his instruments.

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Ok

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Because they weren't as isolated from Eurasia, obviously

It was more of question old world diseases really, and Africa is old world.

Diseases were mostly related to herding animals and living in denser population centers.
Endemic animals in the new world were not suitable for herding and a good chunk of the population in the Americas was not sedentarised

West Africa wasn't as populate as the Americas

they were walking up to their knees in bones and rotting half eaten corpses, so there was plenty of disease

Ah what the fuck are you talking about?

Because Africa has worse diseases than Europe, Europeans were kept out of Africa until the industrial era when modern medicine allowed Europeans to steamroll through the African interior

Africa is connected to Europe.

Worst thread ever

America and Eurasia had absolutely no contact for like 10,000 years (except for that one time the Viking were in Newfoundland for like a decade).

Africa and Eurasia had anywhere from a lot of contact to almost none. But even if no African tribe had ever seen a European or an Arab before, they probably contacted with a tribe that contacted with a tribe that traded with them. So diseases were being traded over that same 10,000 years.

For instance smallpox might have come from Egypt, or at least it was present in Ancient Egypt it could easily spread up to Europe, East to Asia, or South to Africa. But not across the ocean.


So are Asians and Europeans, possibly more so since they left Africa together as a single race. And both have Neanderthal DNA.

Not in the desert no but in the parts where people lived the population density was higher in Africa. Also it doesn't matter, Iceland is not densely populated either, but they are protected by being part of the Old World germosphere, just like Africans.

Because the diseases feared the Black warrior

Historically Africans avoided the jungle as it was a hotbed of disease, for example the south of Nigeria remained unsettled until 400AD with the only signs of human activity being hunters.
The ports brought by colonialism are why there are so many people their now.

In Ghana they had small pox innoculation