Disease: The Cocoliztli epidemics & The Fall of the Incan Empire

Starting around 1545 a series of epidemics decimated the already ravaged Indigenous population of "New Spain" or present day Mexico. It is the worst epidemic in Mexico's history. The mysterious illness still baffles modern researchers. We continue our exploration of disease and it's affects on the Indigenous populations by exploring how small pox was partially responsible for bringing down the Incan Empire. And how from that destruction a world ending myth was born...

 TW: disease, epidemics, horrifying symptoms, The Spanish (as usual), & conquistadores

Theme song by Patrick Mullens