[Right_Wing_Madman]

The main goal of this book is to explain, as the subtitle reads, “How the world began to move beyond tribalism.” For all of human history up to around 1500 A.D., people naturally had a tribal outlook

In many ways, Spanish colonization created the modern world. Before the 1500, the usual method was to kill or enslave the people you conquered (Romans, Crusaders, Mongols, etc.). The Conquistadors had a different approach: we will spread the Gospel and save the natives from Hell.

[Regulator]

Right.

El Conquistadores were the noble spreaders of the Reformation and the Enlightenment.

Tell it to the Taino and the Arawak.

Guess that explains your support of Rueben Marinelarena, the new Jefe de Arizona.

[piasa]

Spaniards enslaved as well.

The missionaries themselves were different but as a group Spaniards were as into enslavement as anyone else.