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The one in charge when Cortez arrived was so bad that all the neighboring tribes were better off under Spanish rule. They helped the Spanish defeat the Aztecs! Pre-Columbian Mexico is littered with bloody art going all the way back to 400 BC. They only had intervals where there was no human sacrifice. There was not much to be done about the diseases once they came into contact with Europeans. They had no immunity to Eastern Hemisphere diseases after 10,000 years of isolation. However it was Anglos who intentionally spread smallpox. Compare places colonized by Spanish vs colonized by English in the Americas.