Which of the following powerful weapons was used by the Spanish conquerors to colonise America during the mid-seventeenth century?

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Conventional Military Weapons

Modern Military Weapons

Biological Weapons (Germs of smallpox)

Nuclear Weapons

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Biological Weapons (Germs of smallpox) was used by the Spanish conquerors to colonise America during the mid-seventeenth century. Their conquest was not accomplished only through conventional military weapons or military power, but it was augmented through the use of disease germs, such as smallpox. People in the Americas had been long isolated from the rest of the world. They had not come in contact with smallpox previously. As a result, they lacked any sort of immunity from the deadly disease. Hence, as soon as they came in contact with those germs brought by the Europeans, it affected them adversely. Being highly contagious, it spread among people rapidly.

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