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Post by spanishspy on Jan 18, 2018 15:04:23 GMT
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Post by lordroel on Jan 18, 2018 15:11:50 GMT
Wow a disease called the “cocoliztli” which killed 17 million people — 80 percent of the Aztec population, that is a lot, even in modern times. |
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Post by spanishspy on Jan 18, 2018 15:38:36 GMT
Wow a disease called the “cocoliztli” which killed 17 million people — 80 percent of the Aztec population, that is a lot, even in modern times. Can we call those times 'modern?' |
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Post by lordroel on Jan 18, 2018 15:44:15 GMT
Wow a disease called the “cocoliztli” which killed 17 million people — 80 percent of the Aztec population, that is a lot, even in modern times. Can we call those times 'modern?' No what i meant, having almost 80 % of you population killed is even in our time a very big thing. |
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Post by spanishspy on Jan 18, 2018 16:22:37 GMT
Can we call those times 'modern?' No what i meant, having almost 80 % of you population killed is even in our time a very big thing. This is true. |
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Post by stevep on Jan 18, 2018 17:37:39 GMT
Interesting, although I'm rather doubtful that particular problem caused the death of 80% of the Aztecs, given how much else was going on. [Many other diseases, endemitic conflict and brutal abuse by the incoming Spanish]. I think there's probably a typo in the section "what caused the 1545 and 1976 “cocoliztli” events,"  Guessing its meant to be 1576? |
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Guessing its meant to be 1576?