A question about pic related....
so as we all know a lot of Aztecs died because of "European" diseases the Spanish brought into Central America.
But why weren´t the Spanish affected by any Central American diseases which were not common in Europe? Shouldn´t it be a fair trade more or less?
Wasn't syphilis one?
There weren't any catastrophic contagious diseases in the New World that the Old World hadn't already experienced.
>>1153270
Rheumatoid Arthritis is meant to originate from the new world.
>>1153270
European disease was transferred from livestock. Central and Southern America didn't have intensive livestock rearing
>>1153280
Moctezuma´s revenge
>>1153336
*>>1153336
Jared Diamond*
>>1153270
Syphallis you idiot
>>1153280
Its origin still has no scholarly consensus.
