Aufstieg und Fall der Konquistadoren

Again, an ad nauseum story of the oppressed and the oppressors. Really? The hollowed halls of academia produces their opinion through modern "presentism". After countless attacks on European cruelty and dominance there is scant,as in zero, criticism of the cruelty and barbarism of the Aztecs, Incas and the Mayans . These cultured and advanced people routinely attacked and enslaved other tribes while commiting acts of cruelty like cutting out the beating hearts of their victims. The Catholic chirch is viewed as enslaving these tribes as opposed to stopping cruelty. National Geographic please present both sides of this debate!

This looks yet again as a CNN version of the "truth". Muslim wars in Spain from 1711-1492 was "religious wars had been tough..." Sout America as "untouched" even though those tribes had been murdering eachother and building cities with millions of people now revealed with LIDAR. How is that "untouched"?

Since this is new one can also provide the proof of Piri Reis map from the 1500's that has Antarctica (how the coastline looks like without ice) and the whole South America coastline in it. Beeing proof to other older maps and history that travelers and cartographers could have taken their ideas from. Just as Columbus said and therefore asked for the finances for explorations. This is yet again the mainstream version to make Europeans evil again and not very factual at all.... So naming the tagline of this series with something with "truth" is exactly the word a very honest person would NOT use. This is the same propaganda as "trust the science" "don't question anything"

The so-called "civilized" Europe has a brutal history of colonialism and I'm glad such documentaries are being made, for the posterity to know the truth. Just because the natives of South America were at war against each other, does it make it right for an obviously more technologically advanced society to have inflicted endless pain and suffering onto them? Europeans have never stopped inflicting barbarism and cruelty against each other, even to this day. The truth, while uncomfortable to many, has to be shown in its unadulterated form. That's what makes such works powerful, because they trigger a thought process, and this is precisely why we should not alter and rewrite when presenting it.