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There are stories of Roman and Asian contact with the America's. Perhaps disease was brought over earlier then we thought. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-C
by noetic_techy 5y ago
There are stories of Roman and Asian contact with the America's. Perhaps disease was brought over earlier then we thought.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian_trans-oceanic_contact_theories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian_trans-oceanic_co...
- xanaxagoras 5y agoIs there a reason to assume disease couldn't have come into existence in this native population itself?
- krrrh 5y agoIf a disease native to the Americas emerged and became endemic, it would have infected Europeans when they arrived. There’s a good CGP Grey video on this called Americapox. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JEYh5WACqEk https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JEYh5WACqEk