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**Aozozbag** · 07-29-2007, 08:56 AM

What's more, the Vikings who came to America were rather small groups from Iceland, themselves rather unconnected to the rest of the Old World - thus it is well possible that none of them carried small-pox or influenza with him. And if one did, then the low population density in north eastern America did its part to prevent it from spreading.

I wouldn't, however, throw all North America in one "low population density" pot. The Mississippi region definitely was highly populated and was struck by European diseases right at the arrival of the first Spanish expeditions, Florida and parts of the eastern US-states were a bit less so, but still more vulnerable than the few Indians on Newfoundland of the Mic-Mac of Nova Scotia.

07-29-2007, 08:56 AM	#10
Aozozbag Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 399 Senior Member	What's more, the Vikings who came to America were rather small groups from Iceland, themselves rather unconnected to the rest of the Old World - thus it is well possible that none of them carried small-pox or influenza with him. And if one did, then the low population density in north eastern America did its part to prevent it from spreading. I wouldn't, however, throw all North America in one "low population density" pot. The Mississippi region definitely was highly populated and was struck by European diseases right at the arrival of the first Spanish expeditions, Florida and parts of the eastern US-states were a bit less so, but still more vulnerable than the few Indians on Newfoundland of the Mic-Mac of Nova Scotia.
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