![]() ![]() By the end of the nineteenth century, humans occupied 90 percent of the Sundarbans and were unwittingly working and bathing in water full of cholera-bearing copepods. In a way, this turned out to be true, since at the time the area was swarming with cholera germs carried by tiny flea-like creatures called copepods.īut around 1760, the East India Company took over the area, cutting down the forest to cultivate rice. ![]() Take, for example, the Sundarbans, a large mangrove forest in Bangladesh and India that was left uninhabited by Mughal emperors who saw it as a dangerous and evil land. Well, sometimes this grand expansion comes with serious consequences. You can even find us in inhospitable places like the wetlands and Antarctica. ![]() Have you ever stopped to wonder, is there a place on Earth humans haven’t inhabited? Over the past few centuries we’ve expanded to almost every region on this planet. ![]()
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