Explain how disease played a crucial role in conquest and colonisation.

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It played a crucial role in conquest and colonisation because Diseases like smallpox brought by conquerors from Spain were spread quickly into the continent of America and Europe that resulted into killing and wiping out of whole communities which in turn paved the way for their conquest.

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