Cortez= 10-15 million natives butchered
Cortez was a piker. Pizarro= 25 million, at least
Yep, that was the Spanish approach although those numbers are highly overestimated. The population of Europe in 1492 was around 70 million so estimates of indigenous people in the Americas of anywhere from 20 mil to 120 mil is fantasy. Even if you set the native population at 70 mil, equal to Europe they didn’t come near wiping out 57 percent of their population. 70 mil would be an exaggeration as well. Those estimates are like the millions of slaves supposedly transported and millions supposedly dying in transport. The Central African total population at the time came nowhere near the numbers estimated and if true would have depopulated Central Africa. That is not the case.
Remember too, that some of the larger massacres by the Spanish were aided by other tribes who were being conquered and killed off by the tribes being fought.
The Spanish were bad, but they just accelerated what the various tribes were doing to each other.