So there was a question about the Black Legend in the session
All this is true, but like everything else there are nuances.
When you read for example that the Aztec empire, captured and cannibalized their enemies / tribes in the area, when Cortes arrived, this ended because it was those other tribes who asked Cortes for help.
Hernán Cortés, el conquistador del Imperio azteca
En 1521, un reducido grupo de españoles liderados por Hernán Cortés, con el apoyo de una amplia coalición de pueblos indígenas, conquistó a sangre y fuego Tenochtitlán, la gran capital de los aztecas.
historia.nationalgeographic.com.es
In 1519 - the year I Caña according to the Aztec calendar - Cortes and his people arrived at the Mexican coast of Tenochtitlan, where they quickly overcame the hostile indigenous people of the area. As part of the spoils of war, they received twenty young Indian girls, among whom was the one who would be known as Malinche, or Doña Marina, a maiden who mastered several indigenous languages and soon learned Spanish, which was crucial for Cortés in his invasion plans. The conquistador fathered with her his son Martín, considered the first mestizo in continental America. On their way to the capital of the Aztec Empire, the Spaniards gained the support of the native Totonacs of the city of Cempoala, who thus freed themselves from Aztec oppression.
Así logró Hernán Cortés derrumbar al imperio más brutal que ha conocido América
Con sus luces y sus sombras, el extremeño fue una figura inesperada y de gran inteligencia política, que aprovechó en beneficio español el odio creciente entre las tribus locales hacia la dominación azteca
www.abc.es
The Aztec Empire was the most powerful political formation on the continent, estimated to be populated by 15 million souls and controlled from the city-state of Tenochtitlan, which flourished in the 14th century. Using the military superiority of their warriors, the Aztecs and their allies established a system of domination through the payment of tribute over numerous towns, especially in central Mexico, the region of Guerrero and the Gulf Coast of Mexico, as well as some areas of Oaxaca.
Mass human sacrifice was a key mechanism in the Aztec system. Each year between 20,000 and 30,000 people, captured from neighboring tribes, were immolated in these ceremonies. Hundreds of tribes celebrated with jubilation the disappearance of that killing machine, defined by María Elvira Roca Barea, as “a bloody totalitarianism based on human sacrifice”. As the Australian historian Inga Clendinnen points out, lamenting the fall of the Aztec Empire is like mourning the defeat of the Nazis in World War II.
It would not be strange (and here is where the mixture of ignorance and horror comes into play) that after the defeat of the Aztec Empire, you would also want to eliminate any vestige of that system. On the other hand, we can suppose that it is part of the karma of those peoples and the Aztecs who apparently had not learned their lesson...until Cortes arrived.
On the other hand, we have no idea of the exact plans that the 4D STS have in mind, so we do not know if in their long term planning they preferred to let the Aztecs pay the price by taking advantage of the karmic circumstances. We can even assume that among 4D STS there are factions fighting internally and that this will determine what plan or what future events will take place.