The Spaniards militarily dispossessed the Arawaks of their land,

西班牙人用武力夺取了阿拉瓦克斯人的土地
and intended to reduce them to slavery,

想要把他们变成奴隶
first in mines and then on the land.

先是在矿井里工作然后是在土地上
They were assisted in the process, up to a point,

在这个过程中有两样东西
by two great assets: gunpowder and disease.

在一定程度上帮助了他们军火和疾病
And as you know from reading Fenn, the aboriginal population

从范恩的书中你们会发现美洲的土著
of the Americas lacked immunity to European diseases like

对于欧洲的疾病比如天花和麻疹
smallpox and measles.

没有抵抗力
There's no evidence that there was a plot of genocide or

没有迹象表明欧洲人企图利用疾病达到
bioterror in the intentional use of disease as a means to clear

生物恐慌或者种族灭绝的目的
the land and resettle it.

从而驱除这里的原住民在这里定居
What happened was spontaneous, and not intentional.

一切都是自然发生并不是出于人愿