The Aztecs in particular were kind of uniquely terrible, both for their own citizens and for every oppressed pseudo-vassal-state around them. It's one of those weird accidents of history that Spanish colonizers were able to step into the power vacuum after the fall of Tenochtitlan and have at least some people genuinely think 'yes, this is better than the last boss'.

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reactordev 17 hours ago | parent [-]

They were kind of to blame for the fall of Tenochtitlan no? Cortez was welcomed as an "Ambassador" vs as a conqueror.

	▲	PepperdineG 14 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		They rather put in with Cortez then send their kids off to the annual Aztec Hunger Games [Flower Wars].
	▲	crooked-v 13 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Cortez came to Tenochtitlan as an 'ambassador' at the head of an army of 200,000 angry neighbors of the Aztecs, who had realized pretty fast that even a few of these 'gun' things would be really useful for cracking the city's structural resistance to sieges.