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The Conquest of Mexico brought both extreme violence and pandemic disease to vulnerable indigenous communities. This column draws upon pre-Columbian and contemporary Spanish sources to show that the average population of a sample of 1,093 Conquest-era settlements in the historic core of Mexico fell from 2,377 in 1548 to 128 in 1646, and 36% disappeared entirely by 1790. Yet,