Group items tagged foods - Meyer- Body Systems

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bubonic plague
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a combination of both malaria and yellow fever epidemics
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both of these epidemics are foreign to the Mayan culture
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the development of chronic warfare caused a breakdown in their fragile agriculture system. Imagine you were a farmer at the city-state of Uaxactun and you are at war with Tikal. Now, are you going to stay on your farm with no military protection? Of course not, you will move as fast as you can into the protection of the city walls. In the meantime your field becomes overgrown and no food can be produced. So we see cases of extreme food shortages that cannot be compensated for causing the demise of the Mayan culture.
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guinea pig which were often cooked by stuffing hot stones inside them
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. The entrails would often be used as an ingredient in soups along with potatoes, or made into a sauce.
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In this new group was an African being held as a slave, who had smallpox, a very contagious disease.
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Quickly, smallpox spread among the population.  The people had no resistance and no idea how to treat it
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The emperor, Cuitláhuac, died of smallpox, along with many of the leaders of the army.
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 The soldier was killed, and, likely when his body was looted, an Aztec caught the disease.Quickly, smallpox spread among the population.
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In this new group was an African being held as a slave, who had smallpox, a very contagious disease.
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25% of the empire is said to have been lost to the disease alone
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During the siege of Tenochtitlán in 1520, the population was not only low on food but dying of smallpox.
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