Answer:
(i) The most powerful
weapon of the Spanish conquerors was not a conventional military weapon, it was
the germs such as those of small pox that they carried on their person.
(ii) Because of their
long isolation, America's original inhabitants had no immunity against these
diseases that came from Europe.
(iii)
Smallpox in particular proved a deadly killer.
(iv) Once
introduced, it spread deep into the continent, ahead even of any European
reaching there.
(v) It
killed and decimated whole communities, paving the way for conquest
(vi) Guns could be
bought and turned against the invaders, but not diseases such as small pox, to
which the conquerers were mostly immune.
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