[Coyoteman]

They were also Conquistadores and helped bring enlightenment to a people living in darkness [emphasis added].

Do you have any clue as to the death rate due to the Spanish conquest you seem to be supporting...?

One example; for the Spanish mission areas of California the death rate during the mission era alone was about 90%.

That "enlightenment" you support sent the majority of the population to their graves.

[muawiyah]

Yeah, and if you'd bother to study the matter you would have discovered that even if every Conquistidor stood shoulder to shoulder and all the Indians had begun advancing on them at a normal walking rate, the normal Indian birthrate would have overwhelmed the death rate the Conquistidores could have inflicted.

The general scientific concensus is that the Indians were killed by Old World disease. A more recent discovery is that they were killed to an even greater degree by a Hanta virus native to the Americas.

The English created quite a bit of nasty propaganda about the Spanish, French and others who went to the Americas and blamed them for every sort of crime, including many of their own. Do not be misled by the "English Filter".