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Because European explorers carried the diseases with them on their voyages. The Aztecs bodies had no way of fighting an unknown disease, so many of them simply died from the exposure.

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What was the unforeseen enemy that kill many Aztecs?

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What killed more Aztecs than spanish weapons?

Many Aztec people were actually killed by the diseases that the European men brought over with them. Because the Aztecs had never been exposed to European diseases, they had no immunity to them. Many of the Aztecs contracted diseases like Smallpox from the European soldiers and died from illness as opposed to actually casualties of war.


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How did contact with european explorers affect the Aztecs in the 1500s?

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How many Aztecs did the spanish Hernan Cortes kill?

A Lot


What factors enable the spanish to defeat the Aztecs?

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How did the Spaniards conquered the Aztecs?

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What were the means by which Cortez conquered the Aztecs?

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Why did the Aztecs disapear?

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