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Central Mexico

The most populous region of Mexico in 1519; one of the places hit hardest by the 16th-century epidemics.

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  • The Great Dying of the Americas 2.7 million counted in 1568, against an estimated 20 million (Whitmore and Turner) or 25.3 million (Borah and Cook) in 1519 Scholarship & press 1
  • The Great Dying of the Americas a smallpox epidemic in 1520, estimated to have killed 30 to 50 percent of the Native population of Mexico Scholarship & press 1
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  1. Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492, Quaternary Science Reviews, 2019. Scholarship & press
    Following the first comprehensive census in 1568 CE the population of central Mexico had already declined to 2.7 million
    For central Mexico (the most populous region in Mexico) a population of 25.3 million in 1519 CE has been estimated from tribute records (Borah and Cook, 1969)
    Here the most devastating outbreak occurred in 1520 CE
    By 1620 CE about 670,000 indigenous people remained in the Inca heartland, which is equivalent to a depopulation of 93% based on an initial population of 9 million (Cook, 1981).
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