Explore the colonization of the Americas in the 18th century, a pivotal era marked by European expansion, cultural clashes, and shifting global power. This video delves into the conflicts ...

The history books say Europeans brought leprosy to the Americas, but analysis of ancient DNA reveals that a form of the disease was present in Argentina and Canada much earlier ...

Leprosy’s tale stretches from 5,000-year-old skeletons in Eurasia to a startling 4,000-year-old case in Chile, revealing that ...

Between the 15th and 20th centuries, just 10 European countries colonized nearly the whole world. Colonization brought technological advancement, infrastructure, education, and medical care even ...

The arrival of the first European fleets to the Americas in 1492 marked the introduction of new diseases to the Americas. Leprosy — in the form of the leprae bacterium — was among them.

A new analysis of lice genetic diversity suggests that lice came to the Americas twice -- once during the first wave of human migration across the Bering Strait, and again during European ...

"We could detect the ancient colonization of the Americas by Asian people and also European colonization," Toloza said. "In South America, you find very marked information of European colonization ...

Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on the American continent. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS ...

Syphilis originated in the Americas, ancient DNA shows, but European colonialism spread it widely. Kristina Killgrove. Fri, December 20, 2024 at 9:16 PM UTC. 3 min read.

The early history of European colonization of America is often romanticized, but this is far from the messy truth. In reality, colonization was achieved by rival groups of settlers with competing ...