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Plagues and People Kyle DeKlerk Man the Hunter Balance between parasites and host Cultural evolution creates disruption Major steps away from balance skills and tools to hunt (as early as…
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- Plagues and People Kyle DeKlerk
- Man the Hunter
- Balance between parasites and host
- Cultural evolution creates disruption
- Major steps away from balance skills and tools to hunt (as early as 4 mil yrs ago), language, and clothes led to civilizations
- Man the Farmer
- Humans shaped environment
- Changed diseases
- Irrigation helped diseases thrive
- Africa (malaria and mosquito)
- Viral diseases thrived in almost all civilizations because of growing population
- Unusual because of Immune system
- Man the Farmer cont.
- Many diseases shared with domesticated animals
- Poultry 26, Rat 32, Horse 35, Pig 42, Sheep 46, Cattle 50, Dog 65
- Bubonic Plague (rats)
- Lassa fever Uganda 1969 (rodents)
- China
- China great power began moving south
- Large difference in climate between North and South
- More parasites in South than in North
- Chinese historiographer recorded from 145 B.C.- 87 B.C. low population in South China males seemed died at a young age
- Chinese able to thrive
- India
- Irrigation of the Ganges vital to multiple harvests
- Irrigation helped keep viruses alive
- Surplus was maintained and population grew
- Mediterranean
- Trade was important
- Very cramped passed on infections easily
- Hippocrates recorded many diseases in ancient Greece
- Population able to grow
- Eurasia
- By the Christian Era India, China, Mediterranean 50 mil
- Unbalance between parasites and human host
- Civilizations vulnerable to unfamiliar infections
- All 3 suffered from outbreaks
- Eurasia cont.
- Infections began to come up unexpectedly probably due to trade
- Unexpected death strained society especially in Rome around 100 A.D.
- Mongol Rule
- Mongols took over Asia
- Re-established trade
- Some small epidemics
- Brought rats and items infected with Bubonic Plague
- Very deadly
- Small scale reoccurrence in late 1800’s and again early 1900’s
- Transoceanic Exchanges
- Not much evidence in America before European control
- Spaniards defeated Aztecs (Smallpox)
- Less advanced than Eurasia
- Some diseases but much better balance
- Smallpox Hispaniola 1518 Cortez in America 1520
- Transoceanic cont.
- Syphilis and typhus to Europe during war time possibly from trade with Americas
- Maize, potatoes, tomatoes, chili peppers, peanuts, and manioc brought infections
- Medical Science
- First steps were religious sometimes good sometimes bad
- Gradually began to develop
- By the 15 th century Italy began quarantine
- Bubonic plague helped cope with syphilis
- Treatment for syphilis trial and error
- Medical Science cont.
- Food production and diet
- Healthier crops
- More cattle feed better cattle feed
- Malaria carrying mosquito like cattle blood but Malaria virus can’t survive in cattle
- More protein helped the immune system
- Better hygiene laws (waste removal)
- Conclusion
- First Man and parasites lived in a balance
- Cultural evolution of man disrupted balance
- Less frequent more deadly viruses
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