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.
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.
the population was about 300,000
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.
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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.
Smallpox was a major European disease that resulted in high rates of mortality among the natives of the New World due to their lack of immunity to the virus. The introduction of smallpox by European explorers and settlers had devastating effects on indigenous populations, leading to widespread outbreaks and significant population declines.
The Indigenous Australian population was nearly wiped out from smallpox, particularly after the arrival of European colonizers in the late 18th century. The disease had devastating effects, as Indigenous communities had little to no immunity to smallpox, leading to significant mortality rates. This epidemic, along with other introduced diseases, played a critical role in the decline of Indigenous populations across Australia.
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