The Conquistadors rolling in there was a rough equivalent to the allied armies rolling into the nazi death camps.
I’m no Catholic apologist, but they ended a horrific bloody society.
True ... but unfortunately, the European diseases they unwittingly brought with them killed millions ... so probably it would have in fact been better for the Indians had the Aztecs stayed in power from that standpoint ... in North America alone, it is estimated that 9/10ths of the native population was wiped out by diseases (mainly Small Pox) brought by the Europeans ...
... but in any event, that was just happenstance ... whenever two civilizations first meet, the more virile, superior one, will dominate the other ... that’s the way of the world ... ironically, it is only the wealthiest, decaying civilizations that historically seem to lose their instinct for self-preservation .. kind of like Western Europe today ...
Actually, the lies they teach about the conquistadors isn’t even that the Aztecs weren’t that bad; it’s that the conquistadors destroyed the Aztecs at all. According to the “black legend,” Cortez killed thousands upon thousands of Aztecs. But he didn’t have nearly enough men to do the killings attributed to him; the Aztec empire wasn’t killed by Cortez, but rather it commited suicide as he arrived.