[ashoeafoot]

but then why romanticise what was destroyed ? Why not go at the world with a realistic view, which is that the "new world" was exactly the same as the old with dominant landempires holding colonies and tributories, aristocrats holding slaves, that where the landbound spaniards to their neighbors. Just because they have been genocided into a blank slate and you rightfully despise the acts of the genociders, does not mean you get to paint a utopia on the disfigured corpse. The hideaways of chaco canyon speak of slavers expeditions.

[Spooky23]

I didn’t. Why do you feel compelled to engage in “both sides” fallacy?

The Spanish Empire killed about 55M people or 90% of the indigenous population in a hundred years. That’s a scale of slaughter and suffering unprecedented even by the murderous ways of modern society, greater than even the Roman slaughter in Gaul.

Why is it so difficult for you to imagine that perhaps some of those 50 million people perhaps knew something? We’ll never know for sure, as everyone was killed and most aspects of their societies were destroyed.

[HideousKojima]

As bad as the Spaniards were, the Aztec's neighbors despised the Aztecs and their brutality so much that they willingly and gladly allied with the first viable challenger to their rule.