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Message: <blockquote data-quote="silentspace" data-source="post: 1618619" data-attributes="member: 14316">Voadam and Thornir, I think you guys are both missing the point.The Black Plague came from Asia in the same way that AIDS came from Africa.  They are diseases that were previously unknown in the world and that devastated all humans they came into contact with.  Sure, you can argue that Asians carried the Black Plague and Africans carried AIDS, but its different because they were also subject to it.  They are not carrying diseases that they themselves are immune to, while at the same time carrying on a mission of colonization.Saying that smallpox was known in Asia and India (which happens to be in Asia) 3000 years ago is a nice bit of trivia, but has no bearing on the theory that the diseases that the Europeans bore with them was a major factor in the success of European Imperialism, as there was no European Imperialism 3000 years ago.This isn't my theory, and I don't claim to be an expert in it.  If you're interested, I'm sure a quick search on the web or on Amazon will come up with lots of reading material, and will be able to present the theory much better than me.  As stated above, basically the theory is that Europeans, due to their culture (specifically living in close proximity, often in the same structures, as cows, pigs, and other domesticated animals), were carriers of diseases that helped them in their colonization efforts, all over the globe.</blockquote>

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