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  • Yes, because at the time we didn't understand germ theory. The livestock the spanish brought over introduced these diseases to other people via other animals.

    If you supermegavirus X to your pet rat which lives in your house and who then gives it to a bird who then gives it to a different bird and eventually kills me are you responsible for my death? No you are not and that is how many/most died. They had zero contact with Europeans.

  • Many weren’t intentional though. There was diseases spread initially by livestock that killed many of that 3.6 million.

    Yes, there absolutely were intentional campaigns of genocide but a lot of natives just caught the flu and had zero defense to it. Nobody intentionally gave them the flu because many of these people never saw Europeans.

  • Worth noting GGS is incredibly poorly received in the anthropology community. If this was reddit most of the major history and anthro subs have a bot to debunk much of it.

    Jarred Diamond, the author of GGS, is an eye doctor and bird expert. He isn’t a good source for this stuff.

  • No eggs? Are you telling me no one ate one if the more nutrient dense foods or are you saying it just doesn’t make it into cuisine because eggs wouldn't be common to people who didn't farm birds?

  • The USSR under his first two five year plans got running potable water and electricity to the entire nation. That is a larger QoL improvement for most families whose life before Stalin mirrored most of their ancestors for centuries.

    This is why he falls into the mixed bag category rather than being seen as an outright monster like Beria was.