What If the Aztec Empire Had Smallpox Immunity?

Añadido: 2026-05-20

[00:00:00]What if one virus could save an entire empire?

[00:00:05]Tenochtitlan, 1519.

[00:00:07]Cortez crosses the causeway with 500 men.

[00:00:12]This time, smallpox never reaches the lake city.

[00:00:18]200,000 Aztec defenders flood the streets.

[00:00:23]What they don't teach you, disease did the conquering.

[00:00:28]The brigantines burn.

[00:00:30]Spanish columns retreat across the causeway.

[00:00:34]By 1900, the Aztec empire still rules Central Mexico.

[00:00:40]So, was it really smallpox that conquered the Americas or something else?