Negative Effects Of Spanish Conquistadors

The conquest of Spanish conquistadors was greatly influenced by the negative effects of the diseases they brought from Europe. The major diseases brought by the Spanish included the common Flu, smallpox and Typhus. These diseases wreaked havoc on the Aztec societies, and decimated the population by approximately 70 percent. This was incredibly important to the Spanish as It weakened the Aztecs to a point where trying to amass an army of sick and dying people would have been pointless. Making it easier for the well-armed and healthy Spanish to crush the Aztec’s resistance. At first the Spanish were unaware of the damage the diseases would cause, armed with the knowledge that the previously un-exposed Aztecs were highly susceptible to becoming