Apologetic History Of The Indies Analysis

As industry swept across Europe the need for raw materials arose. With this came the explosion of exploration and colonization in undeveloped areas. In the western hemisphere, the Spanish conquered Florida, the south-western part of the U.S., Mexico, and the western parts of South America. This land was especially desirable because of the copious amounts of lumber, cotton, and coal. Bartelomé de Las Casas, a Dominican friar, went to the new world as a bishop where he witnessed the poor treatment of the Native people. This lead him to publish the Apologetic History of the Indies where he argued against the corruption of the Native Americans innocence and of their lands by the Spanish colonists. Casas’ main arguments for why Native Americans