Globalization and disease Eurasian diseases to the Americas was that many more native peoples were killed by disease and germs than by the colonists' use of guns or other weapons. Scholars estimate that over a period of four centuries, epidemic diseases wiped out as much as 90 percent of the American indigenous populations. In Europe during the age of exploration, diseases such as smallpox, measles and tuberculosis (TB) had already been introduced centuries before through trade with Asia and Africa. People had developed some antibodies to these and other diseases from the Eurasian continent. When the Europeans traveled to new lands, they carried
The Mexican Dream, or, The Interrupted Thought of Amerindian Civilizations indigenous societies through war, disease and slavery. 11 editions published between 1988 and 2004 in 5 languages and held by 835 libraries worldwide Also published in French under Le Figaro and Kirkus Reviews reviewed the book. The Mexican Dream, or, The Interrupted Thought of Amerindian Civilizations The Mexican Dream, Or, The Interrupted Thought of Amerindian Civilizations is an English translation of an essay written in French by J. M. G. Le Clézio. In the essay, Le Clézio conducts an inquiry into the brutal disappearance of the indigenous cultures of Mesoamerica in the 16th century, particularly the end of the Mexican