There are no clear signals of recent genetic drift events in the general population from El Salvador, as observed in, for instance, neighbouring but isolated Native American populations such as the Ngöbé from Panamá [37] which shows extremely reduced levels of mtDNA diversity (reflecting passage through post-conquest population bottlenecks).
Following the Ottoman conquest, the city population changed.
Acasaguastlán was one of few pre-conquest centres of population in the middle Motagua River drainage, due to the arid climate.
The Old World diseases brought with the Spanish and against which the indigenous New World peoples had no resistance were a deciding factor in the conquest; they decimated populations before battles were even fought.
He correctly faults the legacy of the brutal conquest of an indigenous population many times larger than that north of Mexico.
The Spanish conquest decimated the Indian population with European diseases and then re-formed it into a new racial majority of mestizos, most frequently through rape, forced marriage and other forms of involuntary mating.
Geography and history, to make the same point rather more sweepingly, cannot always be distinguished from one another - hence the way that certain places "imprint the same stamp on whatever inhabitants history brings them, even if conquest spills out one population and pours in another wholly different in race and philosophy".
At the time of the Spanish Conquest, the main Mam population was situated in Xinabahul (also spelled Chinabjul), now the city of Huehuetenango.
At the time of the conquest, the main Mam population was situated in Xinabahul (also spelled Chinabjul), now the city of Huehuetenango, but Zaculeu's fortifications led to its use as a refuge during the conquest.
At the time of the conquest, the main Mam population was situated in Xinabahul (modern Huehuetenango city), but Zaculeu's fortifications led to its use as a refuge during the conquest.
The ancient and medieval states they founded, however, tended to be impermanent, and conquest of neighbouring sedentary populations of higher material culture often resulted in their eventual expulsion (a fate the Mongols experienced after most of their conquests) or in cultural and linguistic assimilation (as befell the Manchu in China).
