HST 198 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Smallpox, Constant Contact
9 Sep 2016
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Each generation creates the christopher columbus it needs. The spaniards had help to defeat this vast empire. Allies: rivalry among india"s: no ethnic solidarity. The spanish didn"t giver the native american allies credit for helping them defeat the aztec empire. Horses were worth their weight no gold. Major infectious killers of 1492 were recent . The disease only came about about 8-10,000 years ago. Around the time of the agricultural revolution. This was one of the only times there was a surplus of food and this surplus lead to a larger population. One of the first times people were around herd animals on a daily basis. People ended up contracting diseases from these animals. A temperate-subtropical disease pool by c. 1000 ad. Spread diseases: humans being able to travel far distances quickly accelerates the spread of disease. Europe saved from the mongols due to the death of the great khan. Other disease: measles, mumps, chicken pox, etc.
