GGR329H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Terra Preta, Tsetse Fly, Rinderpest
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The horse was fundamental to the farming success of eurasian societies, providing not only food and fertilizer but also, crucially, 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. The main qualities that spaniards were looking for were stronger, longer, sharper swords, toughness, hardness, sword to have a certain pliability, an ability to bend and spring back into shape. High death rate (40% children died < 15) Because diseases swept from coastlines to inland areas. Why are some scholars critical of the high numbers of then recently diseased people put forward by dobyns: smallpox spreads slowly, and not very far, different strains of smallpox. In americas perhaps not the deadliest and most contagious: early accounts not by first-hand witnesses. Spread - do not fit any recognizable epidemiological paradigms.