[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEYh5WACqEk[/media]
Another interesting video, shame we gotta wait a month for part 2. It seems like a really interesting topic.
Wasn't syphilis from the new world?
[url]http://public.gettysburg.edu/~tshannon/hist106web/site19/diseases.htm[/url]
Basically read [I]Guns, germs and steel[/I] by Jared Diamond. Great book.
One fairly large issue I have...
Pre-Columbian America had several domesticated animals. Turkeys were domesticated, deer had been semi-domesticated, certain bird species like dove had been domesticated, you had several species of fish being used in domestication... I mean fuck.
Saying that the natives didn't domesticate many animals is fairly far off. Some evidence has also stated that the natives were fucked over by climate change which caused tons of droughts before Columbus arrival.
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;49171890]One fairly large issue I have...
Pre-Columbian America had several domesticated animals. Turkeys were domesticated, deer had been semi-domesticated, certain bird species like dove had been domesticated, you had several species of fish being used in domestication... I mean fuck.
Saying that the natives didn't domesticate many animals is fairly far off. Some evidence has also stated that the natives were fucked over by climate change which caused tons of droughts before Columbus arrival.[/QUOTE]
Source?
[QUOTE=JohhnyCarson;49170571]Wasn't syphilis from the new world?
[url]http://public.gettysburg.edu/~tshannon/hist106web/site19/diseases.htm[/url][/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.archaeology.org/news/3899-151120austria-congenital-syphilis[/url]
this is now being contested, its possibly being shown in Europe as early 1320 AD now
[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;49172087]Source?[/QUOTE]
Wouldn't call it climate change, but there were Indian cultures heavily impacted by drought to the point of annihilation.
Joe might be right about them domesticating some animals... but they're inconsequential. A cow can be used to pull a wagon, so can a horse, both can be eaten. Goats can be eaten, but they also produce milk. These animals can also be used for clothing etc.
A mesoamerican tribe also succeeded in domesticating maize, but that wasn't the maize we know today - large parts of the very small plant was inedible. The crop also spread very slowly compared to crops in Eurasia.
According to Jared Diamond, most of the differences between Eurasian and American development can be explained by geography - simply look at the axis of the Americas and Eurasia; one is vertical and one is horizontal. Crops (and animals) are pretty sensitive to latitude, but not longitude, which is why proliferation of crops and animals was way easier in Eurasia compared to the Americas.
Edit: Disregard the part about climate change, obviously there was a period around ~1400 that fucked a lot of people.
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