Editing Latinoamerica (section)

===La Conquista===

The European explorers, attempting to find an alternative route to India and China now that the Ottomans had blocked the Silk Road found the [[Lizardmen|Aztecs, Mayans and Incans]], soon news went to the Old World, with Spain and Portugal taking the lead and expeditions were armed to reclaim these new lands for God and King, soon hilarity ensued (if you are the kind who like very bleak humour).

While small, the average spaniard band was steel-armoured and armed, they got magic-like firearms, warhounds, horses and the utter belief in the righteousness of their cause against the "devil worshipers" while knowing all too well their opponents were just humans, the natives on the other hand had next to no armour, only wood, cooper and stone weapons, stone-copper age arrows, no battle animals and in some instances they weren't sure what sort of creatures the spaniards were, sometimes even mistaking them for gods or ghost (they eventually noticed they were humans because, as their said "their shit smells like ours", also terrible body odour), also, they really didn't have any trick to impress the Europeans with.

By the way, it's important to explain something here, while the Spaniard conquistadores were brutal and inhuman in the process of conquests, in most cases toppling entire realms and killing entire tribes, they never intended to exterminate the native population, if at least because becoming the owner of your own patch of land and native tribe of labourers was a huge social leap (most of the colonists were indeed poor people looking for a chance of social advancement) and the spaniards crown wanted subjects to fuel their quickly decaying realm while the Church officially wanted everyone saved from heathenism and treated fairly (for medieval catholic standards). Most of the decimation was done by the diseases the Europeans have brought with them (yes, the spaniards where basically the [[Death Guard]] thanks to their weapons, diseases and terrible lack of hygiene).

Not to say the natives were exactly the good guys, to begin with, chronicles reveal many, too many, tribes, local lords and small kingdoms decided to throw in their lot with the Spaniards, wait Anon, were these civilizations at peace with nature, some proto-socialist utopias were everyone was happy and what not? Eh, no, not really, this is something which needs to be drilled into western heads with an Aztec ceremonial knife, for the most part these civilization had been built on violence and political abuse (they are empires, after all, the classic ones), and while there was organized exploitation so people could get roads and reserves for hard times and safe commerce it was, well, exploitation, with many seeing the Spaniards as the opportunity to get rid of the local opressors.

The continent plummeted into a brutal war where the Europeans backed up by tens of thousands of rebels fought for nearly half a century against the local regional kingdoms and their vassals while the continent's population were ravaged by smallpox and other diseases brought from Eurasia, the entire clusterfuck is calculated to have costed up to 90 percent of the native population, so yeah, no one like a native american will tell you what is to live the Apocalypse.

Ultimately and after scoring some vital victories the Spaniards preferred to simply take over the current system, building up over the remains of the defeated civilizations and "christening" many customs, keeping some of the nobility and wealthy classes and letting them to their own benefits and devices as long as they didn't deny the supremacy of the Spaniard ruling class, this was in fact an usual modus-operandi for catholic missionaries and conquerors, who, like their 40k Imperial counterparts, took advantage of the beliefs and culture of the conquered to make things easier, [[Imperial Cult|the resulting process brought a unique mix were men praised the Christ yet held to the old traditions of spirits and local supernatural beings while slowly being introduced to European technology and culture.]]