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Re:How did British officers live in the scorching heat of In... by treis on Monday January 20, 2020 @10:35AM (#22099517)
There was enough trade to exchange disease between Europe and Asia. The most well known example would be the plague that devestated Europe originated in East Asia. So the Indian population survived because they were exposed to the same diseases as Europeans and had developed some level of immunity.
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Re:How did British officers live in the scorching heat of In... by z3phyr on Monday January 20, 2020 @11:21AM (#22099865)
> There was enough trade to exchange disease between Europe and Asia

If you look at the long term history, there was widespread and massive instances of migrations too.

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Re:How did British officers live in the scorching heat of In... by treis on Monday January 20, 2020 @12:07PM (#22100238)
Good point. Alexander the Great made it all the way to India before being defeated. Going the other way, Genghis Khan made it from Central Asia to Eastern Europe.
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