Why?<p>The spaniards have been better prepared for war and overcame the local population in bloody conquest — this is a historical fact that no one will argue with.<p>How, from this fact, do people come to an assumption that local population had higher moral values than invading spaniards?<p>Have you completely no idea what pre-columbian era indian cultures were like? I mean, not today&#x27;s &quot;New Age&quot; versions that have been adopted for Californian yappies, but actual kingdoms, chiefdoms and empires that resided there several hundred years ago.