Before you revised your first comment it came across like you were implying some sort of civilizational backwardness, maybe that wasn’t the intention but it was what you wrote. I think you should look into the nature of the conquest of Latin America, the romanticized idea of a small, technologically superior European force defeating large unorganized and less “advanced” indigenous peoples is nearly a complete fabrication. It was achieved through divide and conquer, and in large part by hiring natives to fight each other. Even in north America this was done, with certain peoples siding with the colonizer to evict their fellow Indians. The conquest of the Americas could not have been possible without the co-operation from the local leadership. In nearly every single large scale battle between natives and Europeans, the Europeans had significant Indian forces siding with them. The short sightedness of those who sided with the colonizers at the time is what I was referring to in my original comment.