Cuitláhuac: Difference between revisions

Cuitláhuac ruled just 80 days, perhaps dying from [[smallpox]]<ref name="cha"/> that had been introduced to the [[New World]] by an African suffering from the disease who was part of [[EuropeanPánfilo ethnicde groups|EuropeansNarváez]]'s expedition to capture Cortes. The early sources do not explicitly say from what he succumbed.<ref>Burkhart, "Cuitlahuac", p. 340.</ref> Immediately after Cuitláhuac's death, [[Cuauhtémoc]] was made the next ''tlatoani''.<ref name="cha"/>