Estimates of mortality range from one-quarter to…

1516 CE to 1527 CE

Estimates of mortality range from one-quarter to one-half of the population of central Mexico.

Toribio Motolinia, a Spanish monk that witnesses this epidemic, will say: “It became such a great pestilence among them throughout the land that in most provinces more than half the population died; in others the proportion was less. They died in heaps, like bedbugs."

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Mexico City > Ciudad de México District Federal Mexico View →

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Cuauhtémoc View → Hernán Cortés View → Moctezuma II View →

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Castillian people View → Mexica View → Castile, Crown of View → Aztec Triple Alliance View → Spain, Habsburg Kingdom of View →

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Colonization of the Americas, Spanish View → Aztec Empire, Spanish conquest of the View →

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Public health View →

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