Question

The most important factor that enabled the Spanish to conquer native peoples in Mexico and New Spain in the sixteenth century was the Group of answer choices introduction of European diseases to which native peoples were not resistant introduction of Christianity, which weakened the solidarity of native peoples introduction of cattle and pigs, which disrupted native patterns of agriculture introduction of trade goods that drove wedges between native peoples and set them to war against each other

Answer 1

Answer:

introduction of European diseases to which native peoples were not resistant

Explanation:

The native people of Mexico and New Spain far outnumbered the Spanish colonial masters. However, certain European diseases such as Smallpox, influenza, mumps, measles were introduced and the native people had no resistance to them.

Since the people had no resistance to these diseases, their population was easily decimated, giving the Spanish an upper hand.