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by tronko 2552 days ago
Are you implying that several hundred of people (guided by Hernán Cortés) killed 5 million of people?

The New Spain conquest (current Mexico) was done with the help of natives that hated Aztecs. Even with the help of gunpowder it would have been almost impossible to achieve that body count. Thus, the Spanish Crown wanted the help of the Catholic Church, so it promises keep the population to christianize them.