The Spanish Conquistadors

A fact to take into consideration is that although there was violence on the side of the Spanish conquistadors as well as the other groups who had come to the new world, a large number of Native Americans were killed by the many diseases brought over from Europe. Due to how common outbreaks were in Spain, the conquistadors had developed antibodies to protect against such diseases while the natives have been free of such diseases for years and much more susceptible. These diseases, which included smallpox, influenza, as well as others, killed at least twenty-million people (Stannard