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Yolanda

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By the time that Hernan Cortes arrived in Mexico, which of the following diseases had already ravaged the indigenous population there?
 
  A) Measles
  B) Smallpox
  C) Influenza
  D) Syphilis
  E) Plague

Question 2

How did the rapid spread of disease aid the Europeans in their conquest of other lands, especially the Americas?
 
  A) It killed off people who could have resisted Europeans.
  B) It made the Europeans see their conquest as ordained by God.
  C) It left native settlements without leaders.
  D) It devastated native people's ability to subsist.
  E) All of these are ways that disease aided Europeans.



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Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

E





 

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