Tenochtitlan, a metropolis built in the middle of a lake, with floating islands supported by piles. The date: November 1519.

Upon leaving the city, the Spanish left a surprise behind them. Narváez’s crew was carrying smallpox, and they transferred it to Cortés’ men, who gave it to the Aztecs. While people in Europe and Asia ...

After bitter fighting and a prolonged siege the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, fell to the Spanish in 1521. Much of the native population was wiped out by epidemics of smallpox and other contagious ...

Smallpox, a disease that killed an estimated 500 million people in the 20th century alone, is the only human disease to be eradicated. However, a new report, "Future State of Smallpox Medical ...

A smallpox epidemic prevented the Aztec forces from finishing off Cortés’s defeated and demoralized army. The outbreak weakened the Aztec while giving Cortés time to regroup. Spain would win ...

As European explorers came into contact with these populations in the 1400s and 1500s, they exposed them to smallpox and devastated them. For instance, the Aztec population numbered roughly 26 ...

Talokanil were once regular humans who died due to the highly deadly disease smallpox that was introduced to the Yucatan ... by Meso-American civilizations such as Mayas, Incas, and Aztecs, and even ...

His arrival introduced smallpox, which resulted in the total destruction of the Aztec Empire within just two years. However, this was just the start. In the early 1530s, Mexico was hit by an ...

The paper appears in the journal Microbial Genomics. Smallpox, caused by the variola virus, is perhaps best known for being the only infectious human disease to be eradicated worldwide. But the ...

By 1531, 10 years after the Spaniards’ conquest of the Aztecs, smallpox had killed nearly half of Mexico’s Indigenous population, wrecking their pre-conquest social and religious systems.