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875: Jonathan Kennedy | How Pathogens Have Shaped Our World
The Jordan Harbinger Show
The Impact of Smallpox on the Native Population
Smallpox killed something like half the population inside of a few months, or was it a few years? That level of devastation is really something. I think the real important thing to remember is the fact that the Europeans weren't affected. We must have seemed like we had some kind of superpower and our gods were just better than theirs. And this maybe helps to explain why, you know, much of central and South America today is still so religious.
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