[DesertRhino]

The Maya were engaged in mass murder on a Nazi like scale when the Spanish arrived. The conquistadors were absolute heroes.
Northern Europe never approached Mayan levels of pagan barbarity. That’s a specious comparison.

[BenLurkin]

Probably the wisest thing the Spanish did was to burn all the Mayan codexes.

Annihilating a millennium of their accumulated historical, medical, and astronomical records worked well in the cause of enslaving the evil little people.