Knowing that we are getting our history from either the white man or the remains of a person of that time period to one is a shame, it makes one feel that these cultures must have had something perfect that scared the white man, because they didn’t waste much time getting rid of anybody that had knowledge about the land prior to the invasion. They also didn’t mind teaching the young Indians to what they believed was the proper way to live. Of course this was only possibly if the Indians were captured and left over after a big battle.
Furthermore cultures had been flourishing thousands of years before the Europeans arrived to the New World. Great empires such as the Aztecs, Mayans, and Incas inhabited the vast lands of Central and South America. These three major powers controlled the land before Columbus or Cortez was even born. Although the Pre-Columbian civilizations and the Europeans shared some similar ideas, life was very different in the New World compared with that of Middle Age Europe.
In the New World