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Alainaaa8

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on: Jul 10, 2018
Name two reasons that New World populations lacked immunity to diseases.
 
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Question 2

Name two major differences between the American colonization experience and that of Africa and Asia.
 
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Sophiapenny

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Reply #1 on: Jul 10, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Two reasons include that many groups were too small to contain endemic disease and lack of domestic animals, from which many European diseases originated.

Answer to Question 2

In the Americas, there was decimation of indigenous populations due to disease, and the Europeans primarily sought to settle in the Americas.


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