how did the global transfer of disease in the pre modern world helped in the colonization of the american
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Transfer of disease by Spanish Conquerors invading South America acted as a natural weapon, as it spread deep into the continent, even in places where the Invaders had not reached.
Such an example is of Small Pox, to which the Spanish were immune to. But the native Americans had been isolated for a long period of time, hence were not immune to small pox and died. This paved way for conquest of the America's
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Europeans like Spaniards, Portuguese flowed into America after its discovery.
The germs of smallpox were carried on their person.
The global transfer of disease in the pre-modern world helped in the colonization of the Americas because the native American Indians were not immune to the diseases that the settlers and colonizers brought with them.
The Europeans were more or less immune to smallpox, but the native Americans, having been cut off from the rest of the world for millions of years, had no defence against it. These germs killed and wiped out whole communities, paving the way for foreign domination.
Weapons and soldiers could be destroyed or captured, but diseases could not be fought against. But not diseases such as smallpox to which the conquerors were mostly immune.