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

    Interesting that they tried to settle it in the first half of the second millennium!
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    When did people figure out that the tropics were a death trap for settlers from temperate lands?

    Not sure if it's directly relevant here, but few people have historically chosen to settle in the Brazilian tropics. Might a fear of a hostile environmental climate have had something to do with this? https://archive.ph/ToWcb
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