HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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Columbian Exchange
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Middle Passage
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Capitalism
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Colonization
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Detailed explanation-1: -Meanwhile, in Asia and Africa, the domestication of herd animals brought new diseases spread by cattle, sheep, pigs, and fowl. Soon after 1492, sailors inadvertently introduced these diseases-including smallpox, measles, mumps, whooping cough, influenza, chicken pox, and typhus-to the Americas.
Detailed explanation-2: -The list of infectious diseases that spread from the Old World to the New is long; the major killers include smallpox, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, bubonic plague, typhus, and malaria (Denevan, 1976, p.
Detailed explanation-3: -Indigenous Americans had never encountered deadly microbes such as smallpox, measles, typhus, and malaria, so they had no immunity. Their deaths numbered in the hundreds of millions. By the turn of the 16th century, syphilis had spread from London to Moscow, with each country blaming it on another.