Sheep in the big city

Damn you Indians, damn you!

But seriously, the Indians had generally more of a problem with epidemics because they were genetically not very diverse since they all stem from the relatively small and homogeneous group that crossed the Bering street 10k years ago. Assuming those Vikings in the 11th? century didn't contribute much to the gene pool.

Gar

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In an epilogue to the book, Dr. Philip D. Curtin, an emeritus professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, said the skeletal evidence of the physical well-being of pre-Columbians "shows conclusively that however much it may have deteriorated on contact with the outer world, it was far from paradisiacal before the Europeans and Africans arrived."|

<sarcasm>Yeah, looks like they were all going to die eventually anyway, so its not so bad that we killed them off.</sarcasm>

[ October 29, 2002: Message edited by: Gar ]</p>