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What about the smallpox outbreak that ravaged the Aztecs in 1520? “As the Indians did not know the remedy of the disease, they died in heaps, like bedbugs. In
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What about the smallpox outbreak that ravaged the Aztecs in 1520?
“As the Indians did not know the remedy of the disease, they died in heaps, like bedbugs. In many places it happened that everyone in a house died, and as it was impossible to bury the great number of dead, they pulled down the houses over them, so that their homes became their tombs.”
https://theconversation.com/how-smallpox-devastated-the-aztecs-and-helped-spain-conquer-an-american-civilization-500-years-ago-111579 https://theconversation.com/how-smallpox-devastated-the-azte...