Spanish

The thoughts about the Spanish and the fact that they never did get a good foothold in Florida or that it took them a while to get this foothold is never really thought about is really amazing. I was talking to a friend of mine after we discussed this and he said that he was pretty sure that the Spanish easily set up a colony in Florida. Once I got to talking to him more though he just did not realize that there was more to the story.
Another really impressive thing to me is that the Aztecs, while they fell to the Spanish, did so with the help of their long standing enemies that the Spanish got to help them. The story is usually told that the Spanish show up and just kill off everyone around the Aztecs. The fact that the Spanish had to get the help of native people to go and conquer them is never talked about nor is it even really considered in normal history classes.