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    When did people figure out that the tropics were a death trap for settlers from temperate lands?

    Sort of successful. None ever became a settler colony. Colombia, Venezuela or Peru cheat :) by having high mountains. The settled parts of Mexico or Brazil are outside the tropics and/or elevated.
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    When did people figure out that the tropics were a death trap for settlers from temperate lands?

    LOL! It is not that you pay two poops and three farts for something. Here farth=fourth, i.e. one fourth of a Penny. Think "cvertnik" or something like that in a Slavic language. What are the four parts of the Shire in Middle Earth called in your tongue? They are "farthings" in English. Of...
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    When did people figure out that the tropics were a death trap for settlers from temperate lands?

    I understand inches and feet, I understand 20 shillings and 240 pence (and 960 farthings) to a Pound, even acres and square miles (0,4 ha and 2,5 km2) but fahrenheit, Troy Ounces and acre-feet make grey matter dribble out of me ears ...
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    When did people figure out that the tropics were a death trap for settlers from temperate lands?

    My guess would be 1485 or so - when settling the island of Sao Tome - in same manner as Madeira and Azores - failed.
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