Because disease ravaged the americas, what were europeans able to do in the late 1400s and early 1500s? enslave all the people in the americas build vast empires in the americas stop the spread of christianity in the americas wipe out all the civilizations in the americas

The diseases indeed destroyed many areas in the Americas and left great marks in the old civilizations. A high number of people died because of diseases, which diminished their dominance over the land.

That was for sure one of the things that allowed the Portuguese and Spanish to expand their empire to the Americas.

build vast empires in the Americas i just took the quiz