Infectious Disease and Demise of the Indians in the New World

Indian Infections and Deaths in the New World The conquest of the New World by Europeans is caused not by guns, swords or barbarous acts but by invisible and dangerous bacteria. Infectious diseases have played an important role in shaping the conquest of the new world. Many of the territory of America died of various diseases. For centuries after Columbus landed in the New World on October 12, 1492, more indigenous Americans die each year due to infections caused by European colonists, not by nature It is often said (Meltzer 38).

Most of the conquests took place without battle or war as the first contact of the Europeans in the New World led to illness. Old world infectious diseases left devastating signs in the Indian culture of the new world. In particular, smallpox spread rapidly in Panama, destroying the entire population. Once the disease enters the Andes, its south spread will result in the most devastating loss of life in the Americas. People of the New World including Incas lose immunity and decrease by two thirds

Older world invaders brought about many infectious diseases. There is no new world at all, but there are no old world figures. Smallpox is a standard infectious disease in Europe and most of the old world in 1491. It occupied the location of the New World region at the beginning of the next century and killed many American Indians from Aztecs and Mexicans. And Peru. People want to know how hundreds of Spaniards conquered these huge Indian Empires. Look back at the record You will find the army Generally, the people of the Indian Empire are destroyed by diseases like smallpox, malaria, and various infectious diseases.

I do not seem to be as much as India's illness. "The exchange of infectious diseases between the old world and its American and Australian colonies is a wonderful one-sided one," Alfred Crosby writes in ecological imperialism, another wonderful book. "Sexually transmitted infection syphilis may be the only important export of diseases in the new world ..." The cause of this epidemiological poverty is speculation. Of course, as I mentioned in this article, the relative lack of livestock saves the Indians from so-called zoonotic infections. But, no one can be sure of it