The intruders, very few in number in the early days - and they would not have be

The intruders, very few in number in the early days - and they would not have been able to conquer powerful empires like the Aztec with the three hundred men and twenty horses of Hernán Cortés, or the Inca with the two hundred soldiers and a priest by Francisco Pizarro, If they had not been preceded by the great mortality of the epidemics that destroyed the social fabric of these empires—, They also died in handfuls, victims of tropical fevers, from the contaminated waters of the hot land, from the poisoned arrows of the Indians, from the unbearable clouds of mosquitoes.