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Candy Alkaabi
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so sad they didn't even look at the crusades and inquisition
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LTC Stephen F.
LTC Stephen F.
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Those were further down the list of top 100 which are probably listed inside the book which contains the top 100 Candy Alkaabi. I copied the top 29 which were displayed on the website.
The Black Death killed far more than the crusades and the inquisition combined. It came from China and decimated Europe during the early stages of the 100 Years War.
The slave trade did make the list.
#8 Mideast [Muslim] Slave Trade (ca. 700-1900) Death Toll: 19 million
#10 Atlantic Slave Trade (1452-1807) Death Toll: 16 million.
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Candy Alkaabi
Candy Alkaabi
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BUT the Atlantic slave trade killed many more than was listed as well....
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Candy Alkaabi
Candy Alkaabi
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I do so hope Columbus made the list, he and his men killed and drove to death nearly 300k natives within the frame of a month or less.....and that was just his first voyage to "india" but when they found out it was a new world they came back! more deaths at the hands of Columbus and his men as well as the people that hired him!
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Capt Seid Waddell
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12. was due in large measure to European diseases to which the indigenous people had no resistance.
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CW3 Harvey K.
CW3 Harvey K.
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I understand that in return the crews of the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria got syphilis from the native Americans, an illness which they brought back to Europe.
The French called it "the Italian disease" and the Italians called it "the French disease".
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Capt Seid Waddell
Capt Seid Waddell
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CW3 Harvey K., I have read papers noting human remains in the Americas dating well before Columbus that showed clear signs of syphilis, so your report is very likely true.

"The osseotype characteristics of syphilis are absent in specimens from pre-Columbian Europe, Africa, and Asia [61, 91–93]. With regard to North and South America, these characteristics have been identified in North America as far back as 8000 years ago in sites as disparate as Windover, Florida; Frontenac Island, New York; Libben, Ohio; and Amaknak, Alaska [19, 92].

It is clear that syphilis was present in the New World at the time of Columbus' arrival [19, 49]. Especially pertinent is documentation of syphilis in the area where he actually landed, the Dominican Republic [95].

The osseous evidence documents the presence of syphilis in the Dominican Republic where Columbus landed. Columbus' crew clearly had the opportunity and means to contract and spread the venereal disease we now call syphilis."

http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/40/10/1454.full
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SFC George Smith
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a graphic and dark part of human history
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