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1. So why wasn't Asia and countries like China and Japan ever effected by European deseases? They had big cities, although they were a lot cleaner, and domesticated animals, at least more than the Native Americans had, but as far as I know no great plagues ever had effected the Orient or had one originate from their that spread to other parts of the world.
2. But the Aztec capital city was the largest city in the world at the time....
3. basically just a recap of Guns Germs and Steel.
4. This should be re titled White Supremacy: The Plaugeground.
5. At the beginning of the video, my guess was: Native Americans didn't captain the ships. Immune Europeans could carry Smallpox with them for the many month long journey, then disembark and spread it. But if they were infected with Americapox, the crew would die on the way back and the virus would never arrive because there wouldn't be enough survivors to man the ship. It was wrong, once you think of the later ages, but still interesting enough to share.
6. I guess you could say that back then London was pretty...shitty.
7. amazing
8. I suppose you could say old cities were... plague grounds!!!! Lol
9. does that mean that in an intergalactic war we would holde the advantage, because we got pets?
10. Maybe there is some Americapox but it wouldn't survive until Europe, since the travel time is long. The ill people can be killed and dropped off the ship which again stops it during the travel.
11. Do you think that just the sheer size of the Africa Eurasia landmass made it more likely to have more domesticatable animals? I would imagine that more land means more animal types meaning more likely to have good animals but i don't know if that's the case.
12. "The failed BECAUSE IT'S A BUFFALO."
13. What about coyotes and foxes? If people in the old world could domesticate wolves, the foxes and coyotes of the new world must have been a piece of cake. There's also turkeys, which can't have been that much harder to domesticate than chickens. Also, the Sami peoples of Northern Europe and Asia managed to domesticate reindeer, why couldn't the Inuit of Northern America?
14. Please forward this video to the American President and the rest of the world's Nazis.
15. um, syphilis?
16. so basically white people are dirty fucks.
17. "Now most germs don't want to kill you for the same reason you don't want to burn down your house" this quote is absolutely perfect in every sense of the word.
18. His voice is so hard to listen to in this video. Makes you wonder if he's aging or sickening...
19. "Nothing but drama these labs llamas."
20. Correction you can die from the bubonic in 6 days