Question

Which of the following best describes the impact Eurasian diseases had on the New World populations?(1 point)
Responses

Eurasian diseases killed only the elderly.
Eurasian diseases killed only the elderly.

Eurasian diseases disproportionately killed women.
Eurasian diseases disproportionately killed women.

Eurasian diseases weakened the major Indigenous empires’ armies.
Eurasian diseases weakened the major Indigenous empires’ armies.

Eurasian diseases weakened both Spanish and Indigenous soldiers.

Answer 1

"Eurasian diseases weakened the major Indigenous empires’ armies."

Those diseases (smallpox, measles, influenza) devastated Indigenous populations with little prior immunity, killing large numbers—including soldiers and leaders—and undermining social and military resistance to European conquest.