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People in the New World lacked acquired immunity to smallpox and other communicable diseases that the speaker described as now familiar and universal.
Unidentified speaker · Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 1 Oct 2026
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“The people there had no acquired immunity to diseases such as the big one.”
“smallpox,”
“the whole galaxy of communicable diseases that we're now familiar with as being universal.”Play from 41:41Report a misattribution
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