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Posted by jared on Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 3:24pm.

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Could columbus have done anything to halt the exchange of disease between the taino and the Europeans?
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Social studies - GuruBlue, Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 3:33pm
If he hadn't allowed the sailors to have shore leave, that would have kept diseases from being exchanged at that point. However, if the New World was to be "discovered" and inhabited, then the Indians were bound to be exposed to European diseases of all sorts.
Social studies - jared, Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 3:37pm
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