FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
CORTES AND PIZARRO
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Cortés and Pizarro sailed across the Pacific ocean.
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Cortés and Pizarro were kind to the Incas and Aztecs.
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Cortés and Pizarro brought many diseases to the Incas and Aztecs which made them ill and killed many of them.
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Cortés and Pizarro established many colonies in America that lived peacefully with the Incas and Aztecs.
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Detailed explanation-1: -When Europeans began to explore and colonize other parts of the world, smallpox traveled with them. The native people of the Americas, including the Aztecs, were especially vulnerable to smallpox because they’d never been exposed to the virus and thus possessed no natural immunity.
Detailed explanation-2: -Introduction of smallpox It was introduced to Mexican lands by the Spanish and played a significant role in the downfall of the Aztec Empire.
Detailed explanation-3: -Earlier, the successful conquest of Mexican Aztec and Peruvian Inca empires by a handful of Spanish conquistadors led by Hernando Cortes and Francisco Pizarro, respectively, resulted in large part from epidemics of smallpox and measles virus infection that decimated the native defenders.
Detailed explanation-4: -Twelve years before Pizarro arrived at Cajamarca, a Spanish ship sailed to Mexico. On board, one of the slaves was suffering from the first signs of a fever. He was the first person to bring a deadly disease to the American mainland. The disease was smallpox.