Why European Diseases Didn't Kill Africans

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Published 2022-07-14
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  • @arrow1414
    Africa and Europe and the Middle East and Asia have been in relatively close contact with each other for thousands of years, with population passing through. The Americas were isolated from the rest of the World.
  • @AncientAmericas
    Great episode on a very interesting topic! One thing I'd add to the conquest of the Americas is that it was often made possible by collaboration with native groups that allied with Europeans against other natives.
  • @lordMartiya
    Addendum on African ironworking: the ancestors of the Haya people actually had developed open heart furnaces for the production of CARBON STEEL as early as 2,000 years ago, a feat Europeans only managed to match in the 1850s. While the technology was lost when mass-produced European steel tools became available and cheaper to obtain, for almost two thousand years an African people could make the best steel in the world.
  • @baseupp12
    I think the answer is because Africans have always had contact with Europeans and encountered the same diseases at around the same time the Europeans got it.
  • @NorthEevee
    Hearing that some African cultures had a god dedicated to smallpox is the most metal thing I've heard this week.
  • @SamAronow
    People constantly overlook millennia of contact between Sub-Saharan Africa and the rest of the Old World; particularly West and East Africa. Egyptians probably circumnavigated Africa sometime around the Persian conquests. This misunderstanding still causes some major problems today. It’s a pet peeve that my channel will also be addressing soon…
  • @redspiritmask
    Great find on that cannon. I had read about the Benin creating their own firearms before but this is the first time I'm actually seeing a photo of one of them.
  • @samwill7259
    Africans to smallpox: I sleep Europeans to Malaria: AAAAAHHHHHH
  • @gequitz
    Agreed. Also, the Kushites were able to defeat Roman (plus Arabic and Persian) invasions, so Eurasians were unable to conquer Nubia until the late middle ages. After that, Muslim North Africa was able to stem European conquest of Africa in the 16th century. Both directly, with Morocco winning the Battle of 3 Kings, and by assisting Black Muslims, such as with the Ajuuraan-Ottoman alliance against the Portuguese in the horn of Africa.
  • @GhostCountries
    Great analysis! I think a lot of people who are not familiar with history should watch this, it makes a lot of things clear and is also interesting! Keep going!
  • @matthewbrotman2907
    Europeans settled in the Americas and Australia because, partly as a result of the diseases, there was room for them. They didn’t settle Asia or most of Africa because those places were fully populated.
  • @Anaximander9
    In the Americas, European (Old World) diseases killed the native population, thus opening up vast areas for settlement by Europeans. The opposite was true in Africa. In Africa, African diseases killed Europeans, thus inhibiting settlement of Europeans in Africa.
  • @k.yz.i.marcel0000
    Encore une bonne vidéo de votre part, je ne regrette pas de m'être abonnés à cette chaîne et d'avoir rejoint votre discord, j'en apprends beaucoup
  • @rcwagon
    Very interesting video. Thank you. Found your channel through Epimethius.