HIST 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Animal Husbandry, Columbian Exchange, Smallpox
8 Sep 2017
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Greek, roman, and islamic civilizations: touched all three continents (europe, north africa, western/southern asia) Intermingling peoples and pathogens across three continents: brought diseases that were unknown by one population to another population devastation, major epidemics from second century ad. Medieval pestilence: concentrated in the medieval towns and cities, measles, influenza, dysentery, diphtheria, typhus, yellow fever, whooping cough, tb, syphilis, and other fevers, well documented in medieval medical texts and manuscripts. The columbian exchange: natives less exposed to european circulation of diseases, exploration ships carry filth and pathogens with them to the new world. Amerindian civilizations and peoples: at times of contact c. 1500, robust population of between 20 and 100 million, aztecs (mexico, hundreds of smaller first nations. Transoceanic exchange (1492-1682: portuguese, spanish, french, english, dutch, danish. Intermingling of indigenous and european populations contact period. Interaction with asian and african populations: animal husbandry.
