Sentences with 'smallpox'
Example sentences and phrases with the word smallpox and other words derived from it.
• « Once the Aztecs realised the extent of the Spaniards' rapacious designs they drove them out of the city, but then a smallpox epidemic undermined their ability to fight. »
• « The Spanish also brought smallpox to the Valley of Mexico. The disease took a heavy toll on the people of Tenochtitlán, playing a far greater role in the city's demise than the force of Spanish arms. »
• « European explorers inadvertently brought chickenpox, measles, mumps and smallpox, which ravaged native peoples despite their attempts to treat the diseases, decimating some populations and utterly destroying others. »