This is because of the fact that the Europeans had had
domesticated animals for a much longer time and had had a broader variety of
domesticated animals.
As people lived in close proximity to
the animals, infectious diseases developed. The longer people and animals live
together, and the more different kinds of animals there are living with the people, the
more chances there are for infectious diseases to
develop.
In the New World, there were very few domesticated
animals. In addition, agriculture had not been present for nearly as long as it had
been in Eurasia. For these reasons, the Europeans (by the time of contact) carried many
infectious diseases while the Native Americans did not.
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