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What were the effects of smallpox on the population of Tenochtitlan?
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What is the population of Mexico city now and also when it was Tenochtitlan?
As of 2008, Mexico City was populated by some 19,028,000 inhabitants. It is estimated that by 1519, before the population was decimated by the smallpox plague brought by Hernan Cortes and his Spanish Conquistadores, there were around 200,000 Aztecs living in Tenochtitlan.
What were the negative effects the Spanish had on the Aztecs?
After three months of fighting, Cortes defeated the capital city of the Aztec Empire, Tenochtitlan. The emperor Cuauhtémoc was taken prisoner and executed later that same year, and Cortes became the ruler of the expansive empire. The surviving Aztecs were highly susceptible to European diseases previously unknown to their culture, such as smallpox and typhus. In 1521, smallpox decimated the population of Tenochtitlan. Two following epidemics killed 75 percent of the remaining population, according to the New World Encyclopedia. Surviving Aztecs were not allowed to learn of their native culture and were forced to read and write in Spanish. Many elements of Aztec culture were lost forever.
What was the population size of Tenochtitlan?
the population was about 300,000
Why did hernan Cortes destroy tenochtitlan?
The Spanish destroyed Tenochtitlan by having a war for 3 months inside the city. The biggest thing that brought them down, however, was smallpox that the Aztecs were not immuned to.
CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF OIL SPILLAGE?
smallpox and measles
What are 4 lasting effects of the Columbian Exchange?
horses, smallpox
The Aztec population was decimated by brought by the europeans?
Smallpox
What population does smallpox mostly affect?
United States of America
Where did the Aztecs decide to live after Mexico?
They continued to live in Mexico. They were displaced after Cortes conquered Tenochtitlan but stayed in the general area. Most were either enslaved or died of smallpox.
What were the roads called that linked Tenochtitlan to the main land?
Those were stone bridges and levees, to separate the salty water from the fresh water used by Tenochtitlan's population.
What diseases did the spanish bring to Tenochtitlan?
The disease that the spanish brought into the Aztec Civilization was the Small Pox It infected alot of people and killed alot but fortunately some survived
What were negative effects of the Spanish entering Mexico?
The complete destruction of the pre-Columbian civilization's society and culture, and eventual population crash (up to 90% of the native population died during the following decades) due to European-born diseases such as smallpox, qualify as such.
