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Why did epidemic disease spread only from Europe to America and not both ways in the Columbian Exchange?
The Columbian Exchange, which occurred after the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Americas in 1492, facilitated the exchange of goods, ideas, and microorganisms between the Old World (Europe, ...
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Why did epidemic disease spread only from Europe to America and not both ways in the Columbian Exchange?
@Roger V.'s answer is a good one and I've upvoted it. There are some other additional plausible reasons worth adding:
First (and probably most importantly), mankind evolved in the Old World and this ...
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Why did epidemic disease spread only from Europe to America and not both ways in the Columbian Exchange?
It is not true that the exchange was one-sided - e.g., a major hypothesis for the origin of Syphilis is that it was brought from Americas:
The history of syphilis has been well studied, but the exact ...
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