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point of return
Aug 13, 2011

by exmarx

rudatron posted:

It was basically guaranteed when all large domesticated animals that were useful ended up in the old world.

Imagine if they'd been split evenly, then you'd have pandemics going both ways.

90% of the world, just gone.

There were one or two diseases that did go the other way, syphilis probably being one of them, but none of them as disastrous as smallpox (which apparently might've hit at the exact same time as a native pandemic) was in the Americas.

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