Joe Magruder Wrote:
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> It was probably smallpox and flu that devastated
> the Native American population.

Cortez barely escaped with his life the first time he went to Mexico City, when he returned up to estimates from 70% to 90% of the population was dead from the disease/diseases the natives had no resistance to... And, the rest is history... Now, if you're an Aztec survivor, and you figure that the Spaniard's God was that damned powerful, you really understand why the Aztec survivors "saw the Virgin", and said, hell yes I'm converting...

The pilgrim's "miracle", from being morons that landed in fricking Massachusetts Bay in late October, was that they found full native houses built with hearths and wood cut, and the last dead natives, unburied, from the wave of epidemic introduced by the fishermen from the grand banks that decimated the New England tribes...

After 27,000 or so years of separation, the natives had no immunity to many things that didn't even make Europeans sick. There are claims I've seen and read of entire native civilizations were decimated across the America's. Some have estimated at least half to three fourths reduction of the native populations, that had been wiped out in in the hundred years from Cortez to the Pilgrims.

There are some holes in that syphilis theory, though. Because they have uncovered bodies in medieval cemeteries from a century before, that have signs of syphilis. Although there is also evidence that natives carried asymptomatic forms of syphilis, that the European's were less immune to... Like a new "stronger' introduced or evolved strain, that no one had immunity to... Does that sound familiar???

Now, what I really want to know is where are those goddam toilet paper trains...?

And, what's schedule to load all of the black helicopters on those secret military trains?

And, how big an orgasm mouse had on how our current misfortune is hurting BART ridership...

This is a train site, right? Then troll about trains damn it...!