I have frequently heard about how smallpox devastated the new world’s indigenous populations during the beginning of colonization because they had no natural immunity. What I don’t understand is how did the reverse not happen. I naively assume indigenous diseases would impact Europeans and probably be brought back to Europe but I have never read of this happening.
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Diseases from Tropical Africa absolutely fucking kicked the European’s teeth in, and so they instead razed entire villages and thousands of years of history to the ground, herded off locals to work as slaves in mines and farms, and left as few people as could reliably murder the entire population with automatic weapons if they started getting upity, and stuck to exporting shitloads of their population to places that they could most easily live because there weren’t that many native plagues
The reason why there wasn’t any massive plagues from the Americas that fucked Europeans hard was because there weren’t any beasts of burden in America and in general there was a lot less good targets for domestication in the Americas and typically it was cleaner
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