Westerners can relate to the Spanish conquistadors, because we share the same cultural family tree. Westerners can understand why something like greed could be

Westerners can relate to the Spanish conquistadors, because we share the same cultural family tree. Westerners can understand why something like greed could be such a motivator that the Spaniards would cross an entire ocean to pursue violence against a people... because they had land and gold. You can probably find cultures today who would find that concept alien and unknowable. The point is not the violence per-se, but how it's difficult to grok the deeply ingrained motivations of cultures (especially ones that are long-dead).