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Basically malaria was unknown in the Americas before western explorers brought it over. From there it became very prevalent in some places such as the Amazon a
by Symmetry 11y ago
Basically malaria was unknown in the Americas before western explorers brought it over. From there it became very prevalent in some places such as the Amazon and essentially made mass agriculture impossible there. Then pretty much everyone starved. There were also things like smallpox that devastated people everywhere in the Americas but those were more a one time thing, people were able to rebuild after they passed.
- scrollaway 11y agoGood video on that, which a lot of people might have seen but still worth linking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEYh5WACqEk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEYh5WACqEk
- cubano 11y agoIsn't a devastating, long-term drought a recent and popular theory as well, decimating many Central and South American tribes such as the Mayans and the Aztec? [1]http://science.time.com/2012/11/09/mayans/ http://science.time.com/2012/11/09/mayans/