I read Bernal Diaz's Conquest of New Spain, and got a very similar impression, bolstered by the fact Diaz was a first-hand participant, and very proud of all th

I read Bernal Diaz's Conquest of New Spain, and got a very similar impression, bolstered by the fact Diaz was a first-hand participant, and very proud of all this stuff. The conquistadors were also pretty horrible to eachother, so I got more the feeling that they came from a culture that was unnapolagetically brutal, deceitful, and greedy to an extend we find hard to understand today.