> Closer to "genocidal" would be Hernan Cortes, who pretty much took down the Aztecs. Well that's what you get when you go about enslaving and committing genoc

> Closer to "genocidal" would be Hernan Cortes, who pretty much took down the Aztecs. Well that's what you get when you go about enslaving and committing genocide against your neighbours for centuries prior. Cortes didn't even have to try - all the neighbouring nations eagerly joined the Spanish to wipe out the Aztecs. Even after that, the Aztecs weren't wiped out - they were just converted hard to Christianity and assimilated into Spanish society, even though they even had their own divisions in the armed forces. They eventually culturally assimilated the rest of the meso-Americans and gave us what Mexican culture is today. Now what happened to the Maya is a tragedy. Books burnt, people enslaved and relegated to the lowest rung even today.