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Not just good traveled but also diseases too traveled the trade routes of Eurasia. This population developed characteristic disease patterns. When human contact communities came along and people were exposed to unfamiliar diseases for which they had little immunity or few effective methods of coping. Even more widespread diseases affected the Roman Empire and Han dynasty China as the Silk Road contact all across. Smallpox and measles collapse. The most well known disease was associated with Mongol Empire. In the long run the exchange of diseases gave Europeans a certain advantage when they confronted the people of Western Hemisphere after 1500.