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Q: Why were Africans immune to disease in the new world?
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Africans were largely unaffected by which disease introduced to the new world as a part of columbian exchange?

Malaria


Why did Europeans take Africans to the colonies of the new world?

Because other Africans sold them to the Europeans as slaves and the new world colonies needed workers.


Why did europeans see Africans as a better a source of labor than native Americans-?

Because Africans were strangers to the Americans, so they wouldn't have allies or places to hide. Additionally, the Native Americans had much weaker immune systems than Africans because Africans had developed around the same livestock that Europeans had. This made the Africans more disease resistant. Africans were also able to put up with muich more abuse, on average, than Native Americans without fainting or dying.


Where did Africans settle in the new world?

southern part of the united states


The forced migration of Africans to the New World was along the?

middle passage


The scattering of captured africans across the new world?

African Diaspora


Did the Africans come to the new world before Columbus?

yes!


During which century were Africans first forcibly brought to the western hemisphere and the New World?

1500s


Why was it possible to find both free and enslaved Africans aboard Spanish expedition ships going to the new world?

Africans lived in Spain for over 700 years before Columbus's voyage to the New World


When did human immunodeficiency virus?

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was first recognized as a new disease in 1981.


What scattering of the captured Africans across the new world called?

African Diaspora


What ocean was used to carry enslaved Africans from Africa to the new world?

The Atlantic Ocean.