Talk:The Road to El Dorado

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Were really infamous, Hernando Cortez and company? It seems much more a subjective valoration. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.8.1.77 (talk • contribs)

I am the same.... I found this in Hernan cortes wikipedia article "It must be remembered that Cortes's puny army, however brave, could never have prevailed against hundreds of thousands of hostile foes. Only in the first few battles were they without allies. Cortes's policy of friendship allowed him to use the internal dissensions of the Aztec Empire to destroy it. In so doing, he made himself the champion of the vast majority of the Indians of New Spain. He was their friend and protector, and he never lost their love and respect.".

It is a pity, how "the black legend" of Spanish Empire, also documented in the wikipedia, is producing yet this kind of afirmations. If you do so, you should do the same with many of other military heroes, who caused more casualties, such Alexander Magno. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.8.1.77 (talk • contribs)

I pretty much agree. Those who allied themselves with the conquistadors (the tlaxcaltecs, for instance) were not very loved or respected when Mexico fell under the spaniards (neither were Cortez, but he didn't seemed to mind). The spaniards' allies were ceirtainly liberated from the Aztec empire, but fell in much worse hands. (Rectificando - non signed user. 22/02/07)

• "It seems much more a subjective valoration" --> It depends of how you want to see Cortes. Historically he destroyed a civilization just for ambition. In moderntimes he and many of his time friends from Europe could face an International Trial on War Crimes... but of course, "we can not use modern times to just history".

• But this film is mistaken: The legend has nothing to see with Mexico, Peru or Cortes... I do not know which books the producer of this movie read... El Dorado is a legend from Colombia and the Chibcha culture and it was not reflected there... El Viajero Paisa

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