How much native american influence you think america had as a democracy and culture?

[Jimes]

Interesting. Cortés' men wrote of how when they first saw Tenochtitlan it was far more grand than anything they had ever seen in Spain. To call them primitive is basically just a baseless insult, because they had a highly developed culture. But of course, it wasn't Western, therefore that means it they are savages in the minds of the ethnocentric.