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Botnst · #1 02-08-2008, 08:33 PM

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Originally Posted by t walgamuth

All dubious improvments.

The white man brought diseases that the red men were extremely susceptable to. By the time the white men moved west to inhabit the interior in quantities the population of the red men was reduced by as much as 80% by some estimates by disease.....that was before we started shooting them and the buffalo that they depended on.

Actually I think the average life was possibly more like 37.

Tom W

Vice your versas, too. Death and disease and noxious pests have traveled across the Atlantic from West to East, too.

Then there's the world famous Black Death that came from China across Asia to Europe and is endemic in the SW USA.

Tracing diseases reveals greater complexity than one might suspect at first glance.

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t walgamuth · #2 02-09-2008, 12:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Botnst

Vice your versas, too. Death and disease and noxious pests have traveled across the Atlantic from West to East, too.

Then there's the world famous Black Death that came from China across Asia to Europe and is endemic in the SW USA.

Tracing diseases reveals greater complexity than one might suspect at first glance.

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Are you saying the Indians infected the europeans too and the diseases spread back to europe wiping out 90% of the population there?

Tom W

Botnst · #3 02-09-2008, 08:52 AM

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Originally Posted by t walgamuth

Are you saying the Indians infected the europeans too and the diseases spread back to europe wiping out 90% of the population there?

Tom W

I don't know what percentage of either population was "wiped out" by disease from the other source. In fact, NOBODY KNOWS. There is plenty of unsubstantiable speculation. The numbers one derives come mostly from one's preconceptions, not from actual data.

Who were the census takers in Europe?

Who were the census takers in pre-Columbian North America?

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