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Oh shit, so I meant to add these as well, but they're the physical books which explains my forgetfulness. Apologies if not everything seems to relate but my original goal was "how did we get from slavery to where African-Americans are today as still-oppressed people?", which obviously the reason is "because white people have historically shown serious inferiority complexes n' mental issues and have been all-around assholes to everyone else" but truly history is tied into everything so, uh, yeah:
Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-1782
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues
I'd say the ancient more related to nature is more or less nonsense. Its no real different from today, people get confused I think with scale meaning different. They fought and changes nature, we fight and change nature and it strikes back pretty often.
In the American Indian case they were closer to native in their stories mostly due to a massive population decline that made older myths that Europeans also have in their own way more relevant due to the fact that the land itself returned to nature with the lack of people. Before small pox America, depending on which historical narrative you believe was full of developed or developing societies, with large cities. By the time we went west it was empty and 'wild' for a variety of reasons. I would recommend pox americana for future readings. It is a decent window into what I'm talking about even if its a couple, well, a few years after first contact. Had to read that for grad school history, american medical history, really interesting stuff. Mercury... it cures everything.
https://www.amazon.com/Pox-Americana-Smallpox-Epidemic-1775-82/dp/080907821X
I think personally what you imagine is not real ever in the history of man, nature is constantly try to kill you, which is why we have society... which over time brought us to cell phones and mom calling all the time to see if I'm still alive.
Enforce scarcity? could you explain that one please, I'm generally curious.
Well, vaccines have technically been around for a few hundred years at least to my knowledge. The first successful smallpox vaccination, for example, was developed by Edward Jenner in 1796. And there was a sort of DIY inoculation method developed hundreds of years earlier in China that had an incredibly low mortality rate.
This Wikipedia page has a lot more information, but if you're really interested in learning more about smallpox, you've got to read Pox Americana by Elizabeth A. Fenn.
Look for the Battle of Gwynn Island. There's not that much online that's in the public domain I can see. I remember reading about it more in a book I read for a college class called Pox Americana and also in some personal research I did into the history of Matthews County, Virginia (for unrelated reasons but it did come up in said research.)
http://www.virginiaplaces.org/military/gwynnbattle.html