 Complete the following phrase:  Accusations of cannibalism helped characterize indigenous peoples as uncivilized, primitive, or even inhuman. These assertions promoted the use of military force as a means of civilizing and pacifying the savages. During the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire and its earlier conquests in the Caribbean there were widespread reports of cannibalism, justifying the conquest. Cannibals were exempt from Queen Isabellas prohibition on enslaving the indigenous. Another example of the sensationalism of cannibalism and its connection to imperialism occurred during 