CBSE 2025 · Region 3 · Set 1 · Q17 · 1 mark
The germs of which disease paved the way for Europe's conquest of America in the later half of the sixteenth century ?
Official answer
From CBSE’s own marking scheme for this paper.
(B)
Smallpox
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