Europeans ruled the Americans and controlled the worlds sea routes. The political and military power in mainland Asia and Africa was very limited. China and Japan strictly controlled Europeans missionaries and merchants who operated in their societies. Islam was the most rapidly spreading faith in much of asia and africa and in Europe, india and China.
People in fact continued to live in long ways and their societies operated according to traditional principles. Kings ruled Europe and male landowning aristocrats remained on top of social hierarchy.
Chapter 13
The great dying; people lived in the mesoamerican and Andean zones which were dominated by the Aztec and Inca empires. Isolation from the Afro Eurasian world and lack of animals meant that the absence of acquired immunities to the old world diseases like small pox, measles, typhus, influenza, malaria and yellow fever. When they came into contact with the European and African diseases, Native American people died in numbers in many cases up to 90% of the population.
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