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[Cleretic]

The Spaniards conquering the Aztecs was a case of it too if you consider live human sacrifice to be worse than the Spaniards, which I would argue it was.

It should be noted for sake of clarity that this was by no means the intention of the Spaniards. They just turned up doing their conquering thing and by sheer chance happened to stumble into a situation where there was already a highly unpopular empire that neighboring nations wanted gone.

And being better than the Aztecs is less a credit to the Spaniards and more an underlining of how stunningly bad the Aztecs were. It wasn't exactly 'bringing civility to the new world' like the Spaniards thought, and was more lopping off the existing bad empire and then being their own brand of terrible. It was basically the Ala Mhigan situation of 'overthrow the bad monarchy and then the also-bad Garleans took over', only with a few more political players and... I'm not gonna say less active malevolence, but different active malevolence.

The Roman Empire is probably not the overall pitch that's survived in popularly-understood history, either; what we know from that is mostly stuff penned by the Romans, after all.