Yes but lemme explain the Spanish deeply underestimated the Natives because they used wood and rock,however the Aztecs had more skill and technique in their weapons despite their primitiveness even tough theSpanish had steel they only used it in brute force no technique,Half of them were wiped out by the Aztecs by stealth and they're martial arts "Yaomichita" very deadly martial arts that is hardly known to the world.The spanish lost the battle so bad that they resluted in attacking with guns and Cannons by full force along with the help of a traitorous tribe.It's true the Spanish, won but like cowards with no honor in them just soldiers.
Spanish=Soldiers that only follow orders,cowards,Avaricious for a peice of metal
Aztec=Warrior who follows his heart,fights with honor with no cheap tricks
Black Legend, black legend everywhere. Fake.
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Spanish gunpowered weapons in that time where less deadly than today's hunting ones (range under 50 yards in hand weapons and no accuracy over 25 yards), so the effect was psichologic more than real. And Spanish never underestimated enemy forces, maybe they were too confident in their own capability (not too much since less than 5000 conquered the whole aztec and inca empires in less than 50 years). Plus to this, must be remembered than the booty was the salary of european soldiers in that time (in all armies, specially in non spanish ones) and spanish soldiers fought not only by money, but by glory, God (they really believed their actions served Catholic Church) and their own lives (win or die there was no other options).
Another data, next to spanish fought many non aztec indians who wanted to scape of aztec abuses (aztec exploitation was hard in economy and in religion, affering human sacrifices in great number) and wishe their vengeance. And another one, spanish wished conquer land populated (workers) they had forbidden by kings orders killing indians without reason (not the etnic cleaning done for example by british in Australia).
History appart, the art of kamikazuh is brilliant in lights, textures an composition. Cool art.
The way I see it,because of the spanish, my people are just a husk of what they used to be because of what the spanish did for their so-called god and religion, destroying our culture and being in-slaved for three hunderd years. There is no honor in in-slavement or forcing conversion on to natives from another land because their different. I don't hate the spanish of today,I hate just the ones that destroyed the culture of my people,Still the spanish should tell more stories of their shame and less of their victories to learn true humility.
I only can say that slavery was tried to be forbidden by spanish laws in America, it was accepted (even thinking it as inmmoral) only because of the presion of rich bussinessmen who wanted cheap workers and the presion of Portuguese and English slave sellers who were interested on slavery selling better than paid work in Spanish America and only for african non cristian people, it was forbidden to enslave indians (mita forced working sistem was not a spanish idea but inca one). The problem was that whith the tecnollogy of that time spanish government had too many problems to obbligate criollos to respect the indian protections laws (when Spain's king controll became more effective in XVIII century criollos rapidly started the independence movements offering indians a better life that was a fake for using them in war and betrying them after it).
The destruction of american cultures was littlest in Spanish America than in other zones of the world conquered by europeans (in portuguese Brazil for example). In other way it must be remembered that they acted on XVI century, not in XXI century: was another time and the ideas of that people were not our ones, what they did can be strange or savage for our sensibility but they only could do what was logical or thought as good then. Phillosophy, religion, policy, education were absolutely different, but even so we must remember the high percentage of indian aborigin and halfblooded (sorry I don't know if this is the correct word) population in Latin America in contrast whith No0thern America, Australia or New Zealand. Another historic fact is that great damages to indians were commited not by spanish while the conquest times but by "criollos" (white spanish-americans) after independence. For sure spanish conquistadores were not angels, but nor were demons either, simply were people of their time who did what tey tought was the best for them and their country and religion (just as today do United States soldiers around the world for example). Winners<img style="display:inline;vertical-align:super;margin:0 0 0 3px
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And about humility I must say you that today, the problem of spaniards is just that we remember too well the times we were defeated and notso often the great victories of our ancestors (not only in America, but in europe, in Africa, in Oceania and in Asia), so we have lost many (too much in fact) of our national pride. They did things that damaged other peoples or cultures? Yes, we know and we are not fond of it, but we can't undo what they did. But it must be remembered too that if Spanish had not conquered, maybe northern europeans whith still less respect for indians would have and today the problem of indian cultures only was going to be search on archaeological sites and documents for their records, whithout survivors and descendants who had conserved part of their languages, and traditions.
Greetings from Spain.
We have nothing left to say to each other. Goodbey child of Spain.