[blam]

"Why was the Aztec Empire taken so quickly by the Europeans led by Cortez?"

I found this interesting.

Historical Review: Megadrought And Megadeath In 16th Century Mexico (Hemorragic Fever?)

"The epidemic of cocoliztli from 1545 to 1548 killed an estimated 5 million to 15 million people, or up to 80% of the native population of Mexico (Figure 1). In absolute and relative terms the 1545 epidemic was one of the worst demographic catastrophes in human history, approaching even the Black Death of bubonic plague, which killed approximately 25 million in western Europe from 1347 to 1351 or about 50% of the regional population."

[Salamander]

*shudder*


Hope that doesn't ever come back this way again.