>>21636973>the Spaniards raped and slaughtered mayans and aztecs, (mayans immediately, aztecs a little later)no Cortez and the crew fought the Aztecs (who weren't even called Aztecs back then that's a name future historians would put on them based on their national origin legend of being descended from a conquering northern people who came south to the valley of mexico from a place they called Aztlan, probably in the U.S. somewhere, maybe Arizona, if it's true). They are called Mexicans by the Spanish but this became confusing later on and they need a term to distinguish between post-Cortes mixed-race Hispanic Mexicans, and pre-Cortes indigenous Mexicans so they went with Azteca.
