Re: Turkey Question

In article <3q2603FcqeqeU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
katy <katysails@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Shiver wrote:
> >>katy <katysails@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>The country of Turkey refers to our turkeys as "the American
> >>bird"...turkeys are indigenous to North America...
> >
> >
> > The other day I was watching a fascinating documentary on
> > Turkey.... the Country.
> >
> > It dealt with the real rural parts and spent a lot of time showing
> > farming, food gathering, food preperation and rural living at
> > its most rural.
> >
> > I got hungry just watching.
> >
> > During part of the program they showed some turkeys and explained that
> > these birds had been brought to Turkey from Mexico in the 16 century.
> >
> > I thought that was a very interesting bit of trivial historical info.
> >
> > Can you imagine what it must have been like in that day and age coming
> > back from the new World with marvels to show like turkeys and how a new
> > food source would have been obtained as a result.
> >
> > We send day old chicks and poults by Fed Ex or special mail but in
> > those days, to travel just across the ocean would have been an
> > arduous journey that could have taken up to two months or longer
> > depending on the wind and weather.
>
> Yep...times have changed dramatically...sometimes the exgjange back
> then wasn't so glorious...Europeans intriduced a vast number of new
> diseases to the New World, decimating thousands upon thousands
> here....but then, they didn't know...
>
> katy

Yeah, they did...
That is why they _deliberately_ passed out smallpox infected blankets as
"gifts" to the native americans.

Killed thousands that way. :-(
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