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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Did Native Americans not have any diseases thay were picked up by white colonisers?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

There are a few, most notably syphilis

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

It's believed they had syphilis. But no other major diseases come to mind- perhaps because of the comparative lack of domesticated animals, or the smaller and less connected geographic area (compared to Afro-Eurasia), and perhaps because severe disease mutations would likely burn themselves out within such regions rather than travel the length of Afro-Eurasia like old world diseases...