The European Conquest of the Americas

Jared Diamond: Europeans colonize the Americas incredibly easily. He says it would have been inevitable in any way because we had better, better weapons and we had guns and, and steel but I think this is really, really unlikely if we look at how much difficulty American led Alliance had trying to achieve very modest aims in Afghanistan. The same kind of old world pathogens that infected Europeans also affected the vast majority of the African, African continent. And so this I guess worked as a defensive force field that made it almost impossible for European's to conquer West Africa.