[vbmoneyspender]

Can you site any evidence for the Conquistadors torturing children, women and the elderly - let alone sacrificing them.

It is truly amazing how political correctness infects even Free Republic.

[af_vet_rr]

Can you site any evidence for the Conquistadors torturing children, women and the elderly - let alone sacrificing them.

It is truly amazing how political correctness infects even Free Republic.

I never denied the natives didn't have some brutal practices, I was pointing out that the Spanish were no saints (not even close). Let's face it though, if the Americas didn't have riches that Spain had wanted, you can bet their presence there would not have been as big and as brutal as it was. And if Spain thought they could have easily handled the military fallout, they would have wiped out all of the English and French colonies and tried to hold on to both continents for themselves.