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1 day ago · A common assumption by Africans who were unaware of the true purpose of the Atlantic slave trade was that the Europeans were cannibals who planned on cooking and eating their captives. This rumour was a common source of significant distress for enslaved Africans. European participation in the slave trade
3 days ago · U.S. Public Health Service, 1941–45. The history of malaria extends from its prehistoric origin as a zoonotic disease in the primates of Africa through to the 21st century. A widespread and potentially lethal human infectious disease, at its peak malaria infested every continent except Antarctica. [1]
2 days ago · Middle East. Middle East, the lands around the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea, encompassing at least the Arabian Peninsula and, by some definitions, Iran, North Africa, and sometimes beyond. The central part of this general area was formerly called the Near East, a name given to it by some of the first modern Western ...
2 days ago · 1346–1353. Deaths. 25,000,000 – 50,000,000 (estimated) The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Europe from 1346 to 1353. One of the most fatal pandemics in human history, as many as 50 million people [2] perished, perhaps 50% of Europe's 14th century population. [3] Bubonic plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia ...
Apr 23, 2024 · As of January 2022, an estimated 18.1 million cancer survivors were in the United States. That’s approximately 5.4% of the population. There are some disparities in cancer rates across different population demographics. As of 2020, Black and Indigenous Americans are more likely than any other racial demographic to die from the disease.
Apr 17, 2024 · Disease Narratives. It is common knowledge that the Indigenous peoples of the Americas were devastated by smallpox, influenza, measles, and other diseases that Europeans brought from the “Old World”—a distinctly Eurocentric term, as Indigenous peoples were present in the Americas as far back as 37,000 B.P. (before present), and ...
1 day ago · The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions. The wars originated in political forces arising from the French Revolution (1789–1799) and from the French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802), and produced a period of ...
