For example, Bartoleme de Las Casas, a European priest who eventually came to sympathize with the suffering of the natives, stated that the natives were “rational, docile, humble, kind and simple, who are so well equipped to accommodate our Holy Catholic Faith and every moral doctrine and who are endowed with such good morals.”6 Furthermore, even the ruthless Spanish conqueror Hernan Cortes, who conquered the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan, noted that The style of civilized life of the Aztecs stating: “The way of life among the people is very similar to that of Spain, and considering that this is a barbarous nation, excluded from the knowledge of the true God or from communication with enlightened nations, one may marvel at the order and good government that are maintained everywhere”.7 These qualities, in the eyes of the missionaries, made the natives an ideal group for conversion.