Meh,, the Spanish arriving in Aztec areas is like the allies armies rolling into Nazi death camps. Thank god that society was crushed and stopped.
The conquistadors were heroes in my book.
As for the headdress, no things like that should be repatriated to third world nations. We saw the museums in Iraq utterly looted. A complete Islamic based horrific looting and destruction of antiquities occurred at the fantastic museum in Egypt. The destruction of treasures in Syria was unparalleled.
Mexico is one of the most kleptocratic and violent societies on earth. I think it still leads the world in outright homicide.
Send back that headdress and it will be in some cartel leaders house in a few years like Simon Bolivars sword was.
Treasures like that belong in adult hands, not the turd world until maybe they mature someday.
If that’s even possible.
No more so than Spain... which plundered and melted down nearly everything they got their hands on, then they blew it all waging war.
Mexico isn’t a third world nation. It’s in the top 15 richest nations on the planet.