Contact with Europeans was marked by warfare, disease, and other depredations, and both these groups were largely gone from the region by the late 1700s.
More broadly, environmentalists are right to sound the alarm over global warming, but Ehrlich-style warnings that civilization is about to collapse in a paroxysm of warfare, disease and starvation just aren't that persuasive or helpful.
"Africa is often illustrated in mass media and popular culture through images of warfare, disease and poverty, as well as through celebrity fascination and philanthropic efforts," Christine Y . Kim the museum's associate curator and the show's organizer, writes in an introduction that will appear on a wall near the show's entrance.
One theory, known as the Out of Africa hypothesis, holds that modern humans, whose ancestors had recently migrated from Africa, drove the Neandertals extinct, possibly through warfare, disease, or cognitive advantage.
During the 19th century, warfare, disease and crossbreeding reduced herd numbers dramatically, and despite some recovery in the late 19th century, the trend continued into the early 20th century.
And just in terms of places to go it feels like more of the world is accessible to travelers and unrestricted by governments, warfare, disease, sanctions, or other issues than ever before.
The combination of regular warfare, disease, difficult forced labor and harsh measures of justice resulted in a high mortality rate among soldiers and civilians alike during her 33-year reign.
Technicians there had just completed a course in identifying bio-warfare diseases.
Florida's original people died of warfare and diseases for which they had no immunities.
He reckoned then there was a very strong sporting chance of not surviving: the blitz, to-ing and fro-ing to Africa, submarine warfare, the diseases of Africa, all stacked up to a promising prognosis of death.
Had years of tribal warfare, malnutrition, disease, heat and poverty sapped the will of the once proud Sudanese?
