Plagues+and+Diseases-Spanish+Empire+Early+Ages

Plagues and Diseases

The Black Death The Black Plague [] -- one of the wost pandemics ever --estimated to have affected 75 million people --once infected the life expectancy was only 4-7 days -- once infected with the plague buboes (large bumps) appear and can sometimes break and discharge pus



Smallpox [] --was brought to the Americas be Spanish explorers --killed many of the Aztecs leaders, making it hard for them to effectively fight the spanish --was spread to Central america through spanish conquest --made it very easy to colonize the Americas when virus was killing more people than you were

The Rise of The People – the Early Years