The Spanish Empire was the most humane, the single greatest empire that ever existed. There never were colonies, there were viceroyalties, and slavery against indigenous was outlawed.I'd go as far as to say they were greater than the Ancient Romans themselves. The Romans, for all their feats, were a tyrannical expedition who mainly centralized everything in Rome. The Spaniards were more generous, building their wealthiest cities outside of Spain. And they were more certainly more humane than the Brutish, who only exterminated and looted rather spreading their culture and infrastructure.
>>18245352The Spanish Empire forcibly conquered, enslaved, massacred and exploited indigenous populations on a massive scale, leading to demographic collapses of 80–95% in many regions, while the wealth extracted flowed overwhelmingly to Spain, not to "viceroyalties" that were in practice colonial administrations designed to extract resources for the metropolis. So no, it was not "the most humane" empire, nor uniquely generous compared to others.
You could say this for every empire, you just prefer the Spanish propaganda more.
>>18245360explain why there are more indigenous alive in guatemala alone than usa + canada combinedalso indigenous dna make up the majority populace, contrary to that of anglo america where it's minimal
>>18245364"propaganda" where the spanish built 25 universities for the populace, halted their expedition to debate whether they were morally righteous, created the first established grammar for mexican langauges before english and french, and made a global expedition to distribute the smallpox vaccination
>>18245430Self-interest, not benevolence. There was still forced labour, exploitation and discrimination for those who survived the massacres.
>>18245360The demographic collapse was due to the European disease.
>>18245433>the spanish built 25 universities for the populacethey were shitty backwards institutions that were stuck in the medieval world and most owed their origins to the Church rather than the Spanish Crown.
>>18245452For sure. War, terror, forced labor, displacement, malnutrition and social collapse turned European diseases into a demographic catastrophe.
>>18245464Not really, Spain maybe a big deal but the population of Central America is far too big and far too spread out to be controlled by musketActs of cruelty contributed to their demise but it was a very small contribution compared to the disease99% of Native Americans were wiped. And no, that's not an exaggerated number. It was originally thought to be just 90%, but now, they believe that it is 99%
>>18245502Disease was the main killer but Spanish violence, forced labor, and social breakdown made the death toll far higher than disease alone would have caused.
>>18245509You act like war, terror, forced labor, displacement, malnutrition, and social collapse never existed in Central America until Spain cameIt has always been there. The disease is the one and only killer. Everything is just extra and the extinction would have happened regardless of their actions
>>18245430because the natives in mesoamerica and the andes lived in cities and were not nomads, anywhere else where this wasn't the case (the caribbean, patagonia, amazon, etc) they barely exist, retarded moor nigger
>>18245352Hispanistas always be yapping shit like this but they won't even flinch to call you a Panchito the second they feel somewhat inconvenienced by a Latam immigrant.
>>18245430Mayas were among the most feracious natives when it came to resisting the conquest retard, the reason they were not wiped off is because they fought back not because the Spanish were some kind angels you fucking retard
>>18245430Because the Spanish control in Central America was actually very loose and more theoretical than anything, not even the Mexican government had full control of the area until later in the 1800s. Outside of the immediate coastline, a lot of Guatemala, El Salvador, etc. was anarchy.
>>18245352>conquer the wealthiest parts of the new world>your new world colonies are the most wealthyOkay?
