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HCHenry

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What role did infectious diseases play in the European colonization of the Americas?
 
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Which of the following anthropologists argued that cultures are collective projections of a personality type?
 
  a. Franz Boas
  b. John Locke
  c. Ruth Benedict
  d. Margaret Mead
  e. Clifford Geertz


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Reply #1 on: Aug 11, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Because the Native Americans had little or no resistance to a host of European diseases, infectious disease was a strong ally in European advance throughout the Americas.

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Great answer, keep it coming :)

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