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WORLD HISTORY
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Question
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A disease brought by Europeans to the New World in the 1500s was ____
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cancer
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syphilis
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smallpox
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black plague
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The first disease to appear in the New World was smallpox described in 1518 in Hispaniola. From there the disease moved rapidly to Mexico in 1520, exterminating most of the Aztecs, Guatemala and to the territories of Incas from 1525-26, killing most of them and the King himself.
Detailed explanation-2: -Unknown in the New World, smallpox was introduced by the Spanish and Portuguese conquistadors. The disease decimated the local population and was instrumental in the fall of the empires of the Aztecs and the Incas.
Detailed explanation-3: -Smallpox. Measles. Influenza. Bubonic plague. Diphtheria. Typhus. Cholera. Scarlet fever. More items •12-Oct-2015
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