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I was homeschooled with A Beka Books-brand Christian curriculum, and it handled the subject the same way. From what I remember, it was posed as an open-ended “Was this acceptable to do?”

My only classmate was my brother, but I do remember fighting with him about whether or not the Conquistadors were a force for good. He only got worse, too. I went no-contact with him after a certain point

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Crazy how two people raised in the same environment can turn out so different.

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Yeah, he was a guy with a cool name who went on an adventure!

Our curriculum was pretty heavy-handed with its White Man’s Burden narrative. I was extremely not-based about a lot of things at the time, but I think my stance was “Even if they did practice human sacrifice, a claim I don’t trust because I’m hearing it from the conquerors, the conquistadors clearly made things worse.” Iirc my brother’s stance was that it counted as an improvement to stop the sacrifices (yes, even by killing them) and even moreso to bring the Good Word to them

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The Aztecs doing human sacrifice was bad but centuries of witch hunts and religious wars in Europe were totally normal and unavoidable.

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