I have been working on a large assignment the past few weeks, and part of it covers the Spanish arrival in the Americas, and how the Spaniards pretended to be gods, 'descendants of the sun', so that the Aztecs would fear and worship them. This passage and picture from an article was my favourite.

Amerindians, however, quickly displayed a well-developed spirit of enquiry in their attempts to decide whether or not Spaniards were indeed "Children of the Sun". In San Juan de Porto Rico, Amerindians had at first believed that Spaniards were immortal. They tested this theory by holding a Spaniard under water until he drowned, watching over him for several days to see if he were truly dead, then taking the body to their cheif to inform him of their findings. The Amerindians then rose up against the Spaniards.