It’s a little murkier than that. Loads of people knew that sort of behaviour was wrong, but it also wasn’t that extraordinary in terms of degree either. I don’t think Columbus or Cortez did anything your typical Enterpriser wouldn’t have. The Italian wars witnessed comparable brutality

Uh, no, that’s not even remotely accurate. The priests who traveled with Columbus wrote about how they were horrified by his attitude and behavior towards the natives.

He was selling 10 year old girls as sex slaves. They hauled his ass back to Spain and put him in jail.