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Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry
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How Did Smallpox Couple Overnight?
Pagis: There's been a lot of books written in the last few decades about why civilizations collapse. Do you feel like any of them actually do a good job of explaining how these different indian societies collapsed overtime? Pagis: One is, and it's not rally a mystery; if you have a society that's epidemiologically naive and smallpox sweeps in, kills 30 % of you, this all happens in a short period of time,. That's really tough. Buts actually amazing is the number of nations that survived and came up with way to deal with this incredible loss.
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