Tudor era European cities were effectively bioweapon labs that wiped out 90%-95% of Native Americans within the first century of contact because they didn’t have a resistance to the animal shit bacteria and viruses that made the jump to humans.
They didn’t live in filth so they never had exposure to it.
It was densely populated cities with poor hygiene conditions that created some of the worst diseases known to humankind.
Bathrooms serve a critical service because shit in the streets is how you get plagues.
A lot of that had to do with domestic livestock living in densely populated areas.
Indigenous Americans didn’t have very many animals that lent themselves to domestication as easily as sheep and pigs and goats and chickens. Granted a lot of these animals were native to a bunch of different regions, but there was also commerce between those regions for a very long time.
What do you mean? Do the bison, caribou, sheep, etc native to North America resist domestication somehow? (Like how zebras do?) I’ve always been under the impression that they didn’t civilize by happenstance and lack of pressure to do so, since they seemed to be getting along just fine without it.
turdcollector69@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Little known fact:
Tudor era European cities were effectively bioweapon labs that wiped out 90%-95% of Native Americans within the first century of contact because they didn’t have a resistance to the animal shit bacteria and viruses that made the jump to humans.
They didn’t live in filth so they never had exposure to it.
It was densely populated cities with poor hygiene conditions that created some of the worst diseases known to humankind.
Bathrooms serve a critical service because shit in the streets is how you get plagues.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
A lot of that had to do with domestic livestock living in densely populated areas.
Indigenous Americans didn’t have very many animals that lent themselves to domestication as easily as sheep and pigs and goats and chickens. Granted a lot of these animals were native to a bunch of different regions, but there was also commerce between those regions for a very long time.
stray@pawb.social 7 months ago
What do you mean? Do the bison, caribou, sheep, etc native to North America resist domestication somehow? (Like how zebras do?) I’ve always been under the impression that they didn’t civilize by happenstance and lack of pressure to do so, since they seemed to be getting along just fine without it.