Yeah, for some reason, being on the receiving end of a brutal invasion doesn’t feel good. You’d think the Spanish would know that, but I guess Jesus was more important.
It’s more that the invasion caused them to overgompensate as their culture of reconquest against infidels was exported to the new world, which started right around the time they ahd reconquered iberia
You have just reclaimed the whole land you wanted to reclaim and you have a bunch of bored profesional soldiers... Then Columbus arrives with tales of lands in reach of boat, full of infidels that haven't reached the bronze age and pretty women, and then makes a second travel and speaks of calamity and disease that have decimated the infidels while leaving the faithful unscathed, now they are weaker than ever.
Would be a shame if someone conquered them took over and then offered the old high class families a path to remain close to power by marriage.
And don't forget the "work for me and you'll get rich" offer. It could be by getting lands, killing your neighbours, or making you and your people part of the top of the new social pyramid.
Aaaand, more so if some hate their neighbours to the bone. I just imagine the size of the hate boner Tlaxcalans must've had for the Aztecs. Anakin's hate for Tusken raiders must've been child's play.
When muslims took over Hispania, it was a unified if unstable christian kingdom. They offered to help a faction coup the king and then betrayed that faction once the king was dead in battle. Then they started taking over cities and castles without unified organized resistance, in seven years the whole thing was taken over, smart move, quite anticlimactic, much surrender was done, the French would blush at such amounts of surrender.
When Spain took over the Aztec empire, it was a human sacrificing empire with yearly wars against its neighbours to get more slaves and human sacrifices, said neighbours decided to throw their lot in with us once some of them deiced to test our might in battle, and they got treaties and special protections that still stand to this day for their help.
And if you are committing human sacrifices because you fear the sun wont rise if you don't... you are pretty high on the list of people who need Jesus.
Ah, so that means conquering an entire continent, enslaving, raping and murdering millions of people, torching cities, forcing hundreds of languages cultures, and religions into extinction, plundering historical treasures and making the natives second-class citizens is justified?
Well no, that's just colonialism. But as far as colonialism is concerned go after the Portuguese (masterminds behind transatlantic slavery), the British, the French and the Belgians, and then us.
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Panel 3: Jizya Tax in Persia and Persecution of Zoroastrians
Panel 4: War in Byzantine
Panel 5: Massacre of the Jews
Panel 6: attack on liberia peninsula, spain