Revista Cultura & Religión (Dec 2008)

El camino de la primera viruela en el nuevo mundo, del caribe a Tenochtitlán, 1493-1521.

  • Elsa Malvido

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 3
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The topic that us occupies in this one work is the beginning of the new pathology in the center of convergence of the American history of these times, the Carib and from there, his(her,your) expansion to firm land, or, that we try to chase(prosecute) the way of her(it) firstly pandemic of smallpox, to know whom and when they imported it, as well as how much time took to continue the contagion and the devastations that it(he,she) caused between(among) the native inhabitants, that is to say, to play with the history to do the epidemiological geography of the route of the smallpox, using the scientific advances of ours Times, as well as to include new documents and studies of the topic, for which we must do the trip from Cadiz to the Caribbean seas crossing the populations of the islands and to continue the trip for the routes of the suffering, from the coast of the Side Cross up to coming to the heart of the Indo-American cultures, the great Tenochtitlán.

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