To: Wiseghy
"This is despite the popular PC notion that only European illnesses nearly destroyed the Aztec race." I immediately wondered if this disease was connected to other 'lost civilizations' there and in South America.
20 posted on
01/11/2006 1:54:47 PM PST by
blam
To: blam
"I immediately wondered if this disease was connected to other 'lost civilizations' there and in South America"
That is a great point. It is believed now that the Inca and Maya both vanished with out European intervention after extended periods of drought and war. I don't doubt that pandemics played a large roll. This would parallel the rodent spread illnesses that killed large portions of Europe in similar over-crowed urban centers.
23 posted on
01/11/2006 2:09:12 PM PST by
Wiseghy
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