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January 27, 2017 (Guns & steel: technology compared (Aztec combat…

- - - - The Americas
      - West Africa
- - - - Beans
      - Potatoes
      - tobacco
      - Corn
      - Tomato
      - Bell and hot peppers
      - Blueberries & cranberries
    - - Apple
      - Sugrcane
      - Grapefruit
    - - Europe
        
        New luxury/cash items
        
        tobacco
        
        sugar
        
        Food for peasant class
        
        Potatoes
      - Americas
        
        Plantation agriculture
        
        Tobacco
        
        sugar
        
        Ultimately...
        
        enslavement of Indians
        
        African slaves
      - Germs: smallpox, measles, and the flu
        
        The greatest "catastrophe"
        
        90% fatality rate - "virgin soil" epidemic
        
        Not "germ warfare"
        
        Chicken pox
        
        smallpox
        
        "A risk to all but devastating in the americas"
        
        "the common flu" ( death within 24 hours)