@Deplorable_Degenerate @CatLord @Omega_Variant @PalePimp @Silverwolf @Xenophon @sandwich The Maya were long gone by the time the Spanish arrived and were so advanced in the ruins they left behind that nobody accepted they were a native civilization until the 20th century. The Aztec were conquered by disease and 200,000 native warriors united by Cortez, and the Inca were also conquered by the Spanish exploiting a civil war due to the fact that they were also an extremely young empire consolidating their influence in the area they inhabited.

Again, we can imagine an alternate history where Spain wasn't incredibly lucky to catch the two largest civilizations on the continent at the time in their infancy, or more eurocentrically, imagine a similar situation where a much more advanced (for the time) Chinese or Indian empire didn't send explorers to Europe to unite the Latins against the first kings of Rome. The parallels run much deeper than you think, you just have to drop your contemporary (and objectively correct) racism and think of the civilizations of the time, not their failed successor population of disease resistant dregs bred into mutthood by their incredibly fortunate conquerers.