Jules53757 opened this issue on Dec 05, 2006 · 120 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Wed, 06 December 2006 at 10:09 PM
There were massacres on both sides. The atrocities were nowhere near as one-sided as some would have us to believe.
BTW - why were a handful of conquistadors able to so easily conquer the Aztecs? Simple -- they were eagerly helped by an army of approx. 30,000 local natives who utterly despised and hated the cruel Aztec empire -- and were only too glad to assist in its overthrow & utter destruction.
But of course, these types of facts are rarely pointed out in the current politically correct era.
No, the conquistadors were definitely not nice people. But neither were the people that they conquered. Anyone who studies the Aztecs in any depth (as well as other empires and groups) will quickly discover that those groups weren't the peace-loving nature worshippers which certain stars-in-their-eyes Western historians of a couple of generations ago envisioned them as being.