After relatively easy conquests in the Caribbean, the conquistadors expected mainland conquests to be similarly easy.

“all be hunted down so the feeling was the pickings here are pretty easy and the enthusiastic attitude was well why would it be any different in the mainland of course they did run up against heavy fighting and some of them would say afterwards the veterans of wars against the turks this was some of the hardest fighting i've ever been through um but by that point they'd seen that the potential rewards are much higher as well when they arrived at lake tishkoko they would marvel as if we'd have just arrived in atlantis right”