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Disease in the New World
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Storming of the Teocalli by Cortez and His Troops
While epidemic disease was by far the leading cause of the population decline of the American indigenous peoples after 1492, there were other contributing factors--all of them related to European contact and colonization. One of these factors was warfare.
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