Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus. For the Marvel Comics Superhero, see Blue Ear (comics). Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) is a virus that causes a disease of pigs, called porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS), also known as blue-ear pig disease (in Chinese, zhÅ« lÃ¡nÄr bÃ¬ng è±¬èè³ç).
Spanish: Enslaved Africans in Mexico, 1537 (PDF) Europeans' enslavement of Native Americans began with Columbus. As the governor of Hispaniola, he forced the Taino Indians to labor in the Spanish fields and mines, and he brought Taino slaves to Spain on his return journeys.
At the time of both the Erikson and Columbus voyages, the Americas were inhabited by the indigenous Americans, the descendants of peoples from Asia who crossed the Bering Strait, at that time a land bridge, to North America beginning around 20,000 years ago.