I was watching “Sir Mix-A-Lot - Baby Got Back (Official Music Video)”, and one line is “A lot of simps won’t like this song”, and I didn’t know that the word was so old!
I was watching “Sir Mix-A-Lot - Baby Got Back (Official Music Video)”, and one line is “A lot of simps won’t like this song”, and I didn’t know that the word was so old!
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I was specifically referring to the smallpox, actually. Native Americans did not have viral infections, so they did not know how to fight it. I believe the Azteks came up with antibiotics at this point already, as bacterial disease was common.
Also the Trail of Tears, but that was later.
Uhh, citation needed lol. Certainly they did not have smallpox, but do you really think virii didn’t exist in the Americas?
No, but viral infections spread most effectively from human to human, and Native Americans (with some exceptions) did not form large cities.
Stuff like STDs probably existed, for instance, and those are viral infections for the most part, but STDs do not spread nearly as well as something like smallpox does.
The big difference here is that smallpox can be transmitted through airbourne droplets from coughing or sneezing, or through physical contact. I am not saying it was intentional by the Europeans (I couldn’t find much evidence for the smallpox blankets existing), but it was very effective in eradicating the Native American population.
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