The Decimating Effects of Infectious Disease in the New World
[2023-07-02 16:21:23]
In the centuries after Columbus landed in the New World on October 12, 1492, it is often said that many indigenous people died annually due to infections caused by European settlers. I was not born. "(6) Destruction of indigenous peoples by diseases caused by European invaders is unprecedented. It is difficult to accurately determine Colombian former American population, but scholars estimate that this number is between 40 and 50 million.
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.
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
• When Europeans came to the New World, they brought many diseases that destroy Native Americans. These diseases include: smallpox, influenza, typhus, measles, malaria, whooping cough. Currently, the Native American dies and European settlers need a new form of labor, they turn to Africa and use African-American slaves as free labor. · The exchange of Colombia is a movement between people, culture, thoughts and diseases between the New World and the Old World. These items are exchanged through exploration and Atlantic slave trade. Items from the old world include livestock (cattle, sheep, pigs, horses), cereals (wheat, rice, barley, oats), peaches, pears, coffee beans, radish, olives, onions, diseases. Items from the New World include pepper, pumpkin, tobacco, turkey, peanut, pineapple, potato, cocoa, tomato, beans, corn, herbs and so on.