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CBSE 2025 · Region 3 · Set 1 · Q17
The germs of which disease paved the way for Europe's conquest of America in the later half of the sixteenth century?
The germs of which disease paved the way for Europe's conquest of America in the later half of the sixteenth century ?
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(B)
Smallpox
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