How germs shaped human history
History Extra podcast
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The History of the Colonization of the Americas
Humans can still make their own history, but it's not in circumstances of their own choosing necessarily. This doesn't mean that we should just give up and let microbes do their things. The population of the Americas fell from something like 60 million when Columbus arrived to 6 million a hundred years later. "This this fallen population is is pretty much unprecedented in history"
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