Pandemics after Columbus

The pandemics among indigenous Americans after the Columbian exchange were among the most devastating in human history. We'll look at the Western Hemisphere in 1491; why indigenous Americans were so susceptible to Old World diseases. How the pandemics changed all of history and consider lingering effects today.

[@tumbler9428]

Thank you. This video deserves more attention.

[@abraferrazify]

Amazing lecture as usual. Greetings from Brazil.

[@StephanieSoressi]

I'm so sorry I missed this... Hopefully I'll find the recordings & even more hopefully, someday the in-person annual field trips will resume, and even more hopefully, I'd be able to get there.

[@spacechampi0n]

It was an apocalypse for the natives. Must have been traumatic.

[@christopheb9221]

The diseases actually came from living with domesticated animals. Many of the diseases are not deadly to livestock but once jumped to humans it is.

[@kankikankkinen2670]

How virus know human or animal, god tell

[@christopheb9221]

@@kankikankkinen2670 they don't. It's if an organism can fight a virus(and part of natural selection) and what the virus does, like how much damage it does and if the organism can tolerate the damage.

[@nosuchthing8]

Yeah, like covid

[@nosuchthing8]

Is anyone in the comments still alive

[@MrToontuber]

diseases must have been both ways. And the amazon people lived among and with animals too.