It is widely known that upon contact with new civilization, the indigionous people can be wiped out because they are not immune to our sicknesses; wouldn’t they also have some illness that europeans aren’t immune to?
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Evolution is faster in a large area. Diseases could jump easily from Asia to Europe to North Africa. Bacteria and viruses had a large area to evolve in and they became more advanced than North American diseases. Europeans developed a resistance to diseases that originated in Europe, Asia, or North Africa.
African slaves were bought to the New World, because they were resistant to European diseases due to exposure over thousands of years.
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