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Так что здесь совокупность - колоссальная смертность, при этом ещё и регулярно повторяющаяся раз за разом.
А чего так? Методы мезоамериканских гос-в при захвате территории были гуманнее европейских?
К тому же "Ацтекия" просто ближе как противник и армия у неё больше. Кучки конкистадоров разве так уж боялись поначалу?
Всё равно могут быть проблемы:1) Неясность демографии индейцев на момент контакта и завоевания - до сих пор нет ведь какой-либо общепринятой оценки.
2) Субъективность захватчиков - могли нарочно преувеличивать потери аборигенов.
Только что видела интервью с Д.Д. Беляевым по каналу "Россия-24".
Цитата: пенелопа от 03 Сентябрь 2011, 11:43:24Только что видела интервью с Д.Д. Беляевым по каналу "Россия-24".А об чём там говорилось-то?
О майя. И о том, что конец света не предвидится Во всяком случае, не в этой жизни...
Антропологи предполагают, что в бассейне Амазонки до открытия Америки Колумбом проживало 3 млн. человек.
ЦитироватьАнтропологи предполагают, что в бассейне Амазонки до открытия Америки Колумбом проживало 3 млн. человек.Встретилось вот. Не завышено ли?
Завышено, факт
The Chachapoya were an Andean people of Peru thought to have inhabited the land around 800 AD. A tall, white race with blonde hair who built great structures high up in the mountains, they were known to the Inca as the "Cloud People".Conquered by the Inca just years before the Spanish conquistadors arrived, the remaining Chachapoya were absorbed into and ruled by the Incan Empire.The Chachapoya did not leave behind any written record. What is known of them comes from accounts like the one from Spanish chronicler Pedro Cieza de Leon who noted the Chachapoya were very white, that the men were handsome, the women were beautiful and that they were a gentle group of people.DNA testing on the mummies they left behind showed the Chachapoya have markers that are associated with Europeans.[/u]
A recent X-ray study of Chachapoya mummies (A.D. 800-1000) from north-central Peru revealed the prevalence of a spinal infection that bears a strong resemblance to tuberculosis, a disease once thought to have been introduced by Europeans. While evidence for TB has been identified in the DNA of Precolumbian skeletons (see "Precolumbian Tuberculosis," July/ August 1994), the new finding marks the first time it has been identified in the Andes.Over a three-year period, more than 900 X rays of 188 mummies were processed at the remote site of Laguna de los Cóndores, in the cloud forest on the east slope of the Andes (see "Tombs with a View," March/April 1998). The X rays revealed a classic symptom of the spinal form of TB in 6.4 percent of the mummies: destruction of the front part of the vertebrae, which leads to compression and an exaggerated forward bending of the spine. In general, for remains examined over the last century, one individual develops the spinal form of TB for every four with the lung-based form. If the correlation applies to the ancient form of the disease, the prevalence of pulmonary TB among the Chachapoya might have been as high as 25 percent. The disease was three times more common in males than females, suggesting some men were involved in long-term activities isolated from women.http://www.archaeology.org/0203/newsbriefs/peru.html