Quote: (10-10-2014 07:15 AM)Blick Mang Wrote:
Quote: (10-10-2014 07:07 AM)Krusyos Wrote:
On a side note, I don't get why everyone hates the Europeans for bringing over disease, like they did it on purpose. At that point in history, the Europeans knew jack shit about viruses and the spread of disease. They cannot be blamed for this, since they didn't fucking know anything about it.
Some settlers distributed blankets filled with small pox to the natives. Quite effective. We've known the basics (diseases spread from contaminated bodies) for a long time. It wasn't uncommon for infected corpses to be launched over city walls during medieval sieges.
I don't think 90% of the cases were deliberate, but it did happen.
Huh, interesting. Didn't know about that. Where was this technique used?