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It wasn't just pale skin. Honestly look at a picture of a Spaniard, and then look at a picture of a Mesoamerican. It's not exactly night and day, is it?
"The Spanish showed up and the natives thought they were gods." So, the natives had myths and folklore about their gods going away across the sea and would someday come back from across the sea. And then one day these big boats show up and what wades ashore but a man with strangely pale skin and strange colored eyes and a big bushy beard wearing metal armor and carrying metal weapons riding some kind of big hoofed animal. He's speaking a weird language you don't understand and HOLY SHIT did he just shoot thunder from that metal stick? Something like eighteen things you haven't seen before just happened.
What do you think was their first hypothesis?
How long do you think it took for them to test that hypothesis?