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