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Spanish colonizer Pizarro introduces smallpox to the Inca Empire (what is now called Peru).

1520

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Pizarro introduces smallpox to the continent by using contaminated clothing as trade goods with Indigenous communities. The disease then spreads north before and along with colonizers.