First<span>, Europeans unknowingly </span>transmitted<span> the </span>smallpox<span> virus to the Native Americans, who had no immunity for the </span>disease<span>. </span>Smallpox<span> killed hundreds of thousands of the Native Americans, which weakened the Aztec Empire and created</span>political<span> and </span>social<span> instability. Second, Hernan Cortes and his men had superior weapons.
ANSWER = Diseases and More advanced weapons
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Natural rights are rights that you<em> </em><em>naturall</em><em>y</em> have. You're born with them.
I think it would be to ensure that no branch of government became too powerful.
In his most famous piece of work, The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli basically wrote a manual on the types of existing principalities, poiniting out the difference between each of them, on the foundations of power and, finally, on the norms of conduct that the one who aspires to be prince must adopt.
According to the author, it was not enough to achieve power; the prince should be able to keep it, and to do so, he would have to be respected by the people, acting accordingly to each circumstance, changing strategies as appropriate. The most famous saying that synthesizes the Machiavellian though is "The ends justify the means", which means that in order to remain in the custody of power (which would be the "end"), the prince is authorized to act in the most convenient manner, not necessarily needing to stick to rigid moral principles and ethical norms.