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What reason explains why diseases like smallpox had such a devastating effect on the Aztec and Inca populations?
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The people did not have immunity against the disease
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Taytin Chamberlin
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What was the most significant cause of death among the Native Americans after the Conquistador landed?
The most significant cause of death among Native Americans after the arrival of the Conquistadors was the introduction of infectious diseases, such as smallpox, measles, and influenza. The Native American population had no immunity to these diseases, which led to devastating outbreaks and decimated their populations.
Why did epidemic diseases have such a devastating effect on the Native American population in the first years of contact?
European disease had a devastating effect on the indigenous population of Native Americans. Smallpox, ravaged whole communities and is thought to have been a much more direct cause of the precipitous decline Indian population.
Name one of the major European diseases that devastated native American populations after 1492?
Smallpox
Who took control of The Incas?
The Spanish conquistadores, after wiping out huge populations with smallpox and other European diseases, for which the Inca had no immunity.
Which of the following was not a significant factor in the Aztecs' expansion of their empire?
The Aztecs spread diseases like smallpox to wipe out enemy populations.
What was most devastating for native peoples after Spain's conquest?
Perhaps the most devastating result from Spain's conquest of the new world was the radical decline in the population of Native Americas. The Spaniards brought with them a whole host of diseases that the Native American peoples had never been exposed to before. The diseases such as Typhus, Smallpox, Malaria, and Measles wreaked havoc on the Native American populations, killing close to 90% of the population in many areas.
Why were European diseases devastating to the people in America?
If by people in America you mean "Native Americans", they had not developed the immunities to European diseases, over the centuries that Europeans had developed. Diseases such as measles, diphtheria, even chicken pox, not to mention smallpox were devastating to the American Indian. It is probable that more Native Americans died of European diseases than died in the many battles with the white man.
What two diseases did the aboriginals get when the European settlers came to Australia?
Aborigines were subjected to more than two diseases with the start of European settlement. Aboriginal populations were decimated by diseases such as smallpox, venereal disease, syphilis, tuberculosis, measles, and influenza.
What are some diseases from Spain?
smallpox
What kinds of diseases can you get?
kind of diseases such as smallpox, diarrhea, influenza, etc
When the europeans traveled the Mississippi and the amazon rivers what did they bring to native people of both continents?
Smallpox and other diseases
What did the Europeans bring to America that was most frighting for native Americans?
Diseases, in the form of foreign bacteria. some examples are: smallpox (especially infectious and deadly to those unexposed to it before) and influensa (flu)
