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To: reaganaut1
I have never understood why the disease thing didn't work both ways.

Shouldn't European sailors have carried back diseases Europeans had no immunity for that would of devastated the population there also?

30 posted on 10/11/2009 9:02:32 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied, the economy died)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

it did...syphilis came back the Europeans. Couple others too, but nothing as bad as what happened to the natives. Of course, I’ve heard the current native pop matches that of the pre-Columbian era so there weren’t millions and millions to begin with.


54 posted on 10/11/2009 2:10:45 PM PDT by Santa Fe_Conservative (Greetings comrade freepers! Welcome to the United Soviet States of Amerika!)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

no kidding..we sure get plenty of third world diseases now here


59 posted on 10/11/2009 9:32:55 PM PDT by wardaddy
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