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To: haqihana who wrote (720620)	1/4/2006 4:57:28 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Re: "Disease was one of the factors in the demise of many north American Indians too. The Indians had no immunity to many of the diseases that at one time, or another, had raged in Europe." Yes, ABSOLUTELY. (You should check out the book I mentioned: Plagues and Peoples. It's a thin volume, but an excellent read... by a famous historian, 'McNeal' I believe. It covers the new world developments [rise and fall of civilizations] pretty extensively, with an eye to the dominant role microbes played. Ya know... much of the 'history' I was taught in school, growing up, you know... names, dates, battles, 'heroic' figures, etc. is really fairly trivial and inconsequential put up next to the impact of disease on history. So many great battles, great civilizations, were decided by the influence of new diseases... no way '200' Spaniards 'conquered' millions of natives any other way. Same goes for the North.)