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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 1995425" data-attributes="member: 6533">Ya know, I just saw this.hmm, my knowledge of the meso-american plagues is primarily limited to the death of the giant Franciscan mission stations, but none of that was in the Valley of Mexico. So I assume they got wiped out by the last set.Interestingly, the NE American plagues did occur before Europeans came in to colonize, but Europeans did know about it.   Squanto had been to Europe and apparently came back to find his people wiped out by the plague.  The Pilgrims knew about the plagues and used it as part of their before hand justification for the settlement.  There's some pretty incredible stuff from the European side trying to figure out what happened and why.  Interesting that you say smallpox, last I heard there was a fair amount of debate over this with a party that favored flu as well given the way it hit the local demographics.I really don't know that the gender balance is cannon for 3.5 dwarves and to be fair we don't really know what he gender balance in Tolkien is either.  We just know that other people don't know what it is.I'm tempted to assume that the gender balance already favors females and that in general women survive natural disasters at a higher rate then men, but I really couldn't say for certain given that it is a different species and that we don't know what the disaster precisely was.  Some diseases, AIDS comes to mind, affecting women at a far higher rate than men.  Statistically speaking.There is a fair amount of flavor that Dwarves have twins at a higher rate than most peoples and they do seem to have large nuclear family sizes.  So the gender ratio might be balanced by higher rates of birth fertility and recovery.An excessive population of males might work to the Dwarves favor.  A good population to use in risky activities while proven productive units are kept out of harms way.</blockquote>

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