GGR329H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Determinism, Environmental Determinism, Fertile Crescent
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How were these qualities achieved: the horse was fundamental to the farming success of eurasian societies provided not only food and fertilizer but also, crucial, load-bearing power and transport transforming the productivity of the land. The inca relied on llamas for meat, wool and fertilizer but the llama was not a load-bearing animal. Llamas can"t pull a plow, nor can they transport human beings. High death rate (40% children died < 15) Life expectancy (20 < x < 29) Why are some scholars critical of the high numbers of then recently diseased people put forward by. Dobyns key arguments:: diseases swept from coastlines to inland areas, first europeans would often have encountered depopulated areas, disease preceded european explorers into americas; therefore disease had already eliminated most inhabitants a few decades before. Smallpox(through blankets), cough sneezing- influenza and common cold, diarrhea . Cholera, biting frenzy rabies: attack the host directly, hookworms, and schistosomes.
