Re:The Amazon rain forest may be largely a human artifact
by iamelgringo on Wednesday November 11, 2009 @06:40AM
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I'm guessing that a lot of the European explorers did die from disease, but if 75 out of 200 Conquistadors died from Cholera, Amoebic dysentary, Yellow Fever, etc... It probably had much lesser impact on them than 300,000 out of 100,000 people in an Aztec or Inca city dying from Small Pox.
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