You're still getting your information from anti-Spanish propaganda published by the English.
I've also spent more than a little time studying Spanish history from Roman times until today, and even Spanish history as reported by the ancient Greeks.
Life was tough in Europe in the 1400s ~ very tough with the Hundred Years War and all going on ~ see St. Joan of Arc ~ and your religious affiliation could mean your life.
It got worse in the 1500s (see Religious Wars, Protestant Reformation, Counter Reformation), and fell through the toilet in the 1600s (see Thirty Years War).
Gad.
Yet this healthy, stable, benign agrarian society fell to the infirm Europeans - go figure.