In the sixteenth century, the Spanish brutally conquered a more civilized and advanced Aztec civilization, and imposed Catholicism on the native peoples of the Americas.

Or did they?

In this special episode, Dr. Ezekiel Stear of the University of Auburn, dispels the myths surrounding the Spanish colonization of the Americas, and the conversion of their native peoples. In this lecture, Dr. Stear provides us with some background on the "Black Legend," the propaganda of Spanish rivals in the early modern period, which became the received wisdom about alleged Catholic cruelty to Native Americans, in contrast to the Protestant empires of Britain and the Netherlands. (Note the volume may be low on this episode, and you may need to turn it up to listen.)

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Black Legends: Myths of the Spanish Conquest