what there weren't any sheep in europe back then???Disease is a powerful factor in history. The Black Death came from the east, brought by Italian traders. AIDs came from Africa, brought by a sailor to San Franciscon, i think, where it took root in the special population of that city.
You really can blame “bush “ for this!
Couple of years ago my son had a college sociology class that he skipped for a week and came back on a test day he forgot about and didn’t study for. It was multiple guess so he chose all the answers that demonized white male society or victimized minorities and women.
He scored and 80, good enough for a “B”.
Bush didn't do it????
Yawn, somebody got grant money for this.
The theory that Christopher Columbus’s crew carried syphilis back to Europe from the New World has sprung another leak. Skeletons recently unearthed from a medieval friary in the U.K. show unmistakable signs of the disease, researchers say, suggesting that England was hit by the scourge at least 50 years before Columbus’s voyage.
The so-called Columbian theory of syphilis’s spread was based on finding skeletal remains bearing the signature of the disease—thickened leg and arm bones and skull scars—in a suggestive pattern. Although 18th and 19th century archaeologists had discovered plenty of diseased remains at prehistoric sites in the Americas, they found no traces of the disease in European bones until a major epidemic hit Europe about 1500, just after Columbus returned from his 1493 voyage. In the last decade, however, researchers have unearthed about a dozen pre-Columbian skeletons in England and Ireland that also showed signs of the disease. But until recently the oddball cases weren’t enough to sink the Columbian theory.
I heard this in 1960.
/who gives a rats rear.
Alternate headline:
Columbus Crew infected with Syphilis by Indians Possible cause of Naples Epidemic
My guess is we won't see that one.
Columbus sailed the oceans blue and spread to the world the genital flu.
New World History.
- Leonardo DaVinci
- Michael Angelo
- William Shakespeare
Etc, etc.
I guess they won't be hijacking Columbus.
He has become the "boogey man" of the left.
So, Christopher Columbus discovered the bathhouses in San Francisco? (Don’t touch that! You don’t know where it’s been!)
Tobacco and syphilis. I’d say the Indians have pretty much had their revenge.
This was long understood to be the case before the leftists flipped history on its head and claimed the reverse was so..Ask your kids -- chances are their teachers have told them that the Europeans brought it to the helpless healthy New World natives.
Didn’t he get blamed for the Motoons also? And Global Warming, and the Krakatoa eruption, and the failure of Golden Compass, and ...
I thought it came back from the Middle East with returning crusaders. Maybe that was another STD.
What will they blame on him next?
Would not have been a problem, were it not that the sailing sinners fornicated around.
Some INFORMED scholars have submitted a more inclusive hypothesis on the history of Syphilis..
The Origins of Syphilis:
http://www.archaeology.org/9701/newsbriefs/syphilis.html
what there weren't any sheep in europe back then???