Diseases (small pox, typhus, tuberculosis, influenza, bubonic plague, cholera, mumps, measles and more) brought by Europeans wiped out 90% of the people living in the New World, which allowed conquest and colonization. That happens when long-isolated populations meet for the first time. Have you ever wondered why it didn’t go the other way? Why didn’t New World diseases wreak havoc on Europeans?
Americapox: The Missing Plague (Video)
