There's something known as the black legend, which is a contention among some historians. The enemies of spain are said to have conjured up this terrible legend of spanish cruelty that isn't deserved. I was trying to research this a little bitand i stumbled upon one historian who,. you know, the minute i read her sort of a evaluation of the situation, it sort of rang true to me. So that what she had said was that the black legend itself, in in terms of the fact on the ground, is probably true.