[mountainlion]

Pissaro and his diseased men and pigs caused an epidemic that may have killed 2 million people.

[Fiddlstix]

My post was in reference to the Aztecs. read it again.

[combat_boots]

Cortez was a piker, compared to Pizzaro.

[Boogieman]

Accidentally infecting people with a pathogen at a time in history when nobody had any knowledge of pathogens or immunity is vastly different from the intentional slaughter and genocide the Aztecs were engaged in.

[Mrs. Don-o]

But that’s an inadvertent disease epidemic, not cold-blooded murder. Remember that in just 2 years, between 1348 and 1350, between 1/2 and 2/3 of the population of Europe perished from the Black Death. It was an inconceivably huge human die-off, almost an extinction event: but it was not murder.