What really killed the Aztecs?
Between 1545 and 1550, over 15 million Aztecs — nearly 80% of Mexico’s native population — vanished in one of the deadliest pandemics in human history.
Historians called it Cocoliztli, the mysterious pestilence that erased an empire.
But was it smallpox? Typhus? Or something even more terrifying?
In this documentary, we uncover the shocking truth — how a microscopic killer brought by European contact, combined with famine and drought, caused one of the greatest population collapses in history.
What killed the Aztecs
Cocoliztli plague
Aztec disease
Fall of the Aztec Empire
Aztec history documentary
Salmonella enterica Aztecs
Deadliest pandemics in history
History of Mexico
Spanish conquest of the Aztecs
Ancient epidemics
Aztec civilization collapse
Smallpox in the New World
Mesoamerican history
Lost civilizations
Ancient mysteries explained
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