To The Ends Of The Earth: An Essay On Pre-Columbian Contact by the Mali Empire

[Dathi THorfinnsson]

Lastly, West Africans were still susceptible to diseases in the Americas. They were just a little bit less likely to die than Europeans. Malaria should still be an issue.

Err... You mean the malaria that they brought from Africa? And this is more of a problem in the Americas than in Africa, why?

The only disease from the Americas that became epidemic in the Old World is probably syphilis.


Edit: Mali creating a colony (using the definition of: a Malian based settlement 1 or 2 boat loads of people who fetch up in the Americas) is easy. Creating a colony (using the definition of : a dependent settlement politically under the control of the motherland and with significant trade) is very, very hard as Blackfox5 pointed out, unless their ship building tech is a whole lot better. no?