GGR329H5 Final: 2012 Final Exam Answers
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Axis orientation affected rate and spread of crops, livestock, writing, wheels, other inventions. Dobyns key argument was that diseases swept from coastline to inland areas thus the first europeans would often have encountered depopulated areas. Examples malaria, plague, typhus, sleeping sickness) from mother to fetus(syphilis, rubella, aids: modify habits of hosts to faciliatate transmission, genital sores syphilis, skin lesions smallpox(through blankets), cough sneezing- influenza and common cold, diarrhea cholera, biting. Frenzy rabies: attack the host directly, hookworms, and schistosomes. Unintended by-product of host symptoms promoting efficient transmission of microbes. Summarize his theory as to what happened in mexico during the epidemics of. Coclitzli was a local hemorrhagic fever rather than old world disease. Drought increased the concentration of rodents which spread the infection. When it did start raining again, rodents repopulated and spread the virus to humans. After that humans transmitted the virus to other humans.
