When Christopher Cortes Was Normal

Good morning/afternoon your honor, ladies and gentlemen. Today I will prove to you that what Cortes did during this time of era was perfectly normal. I will have 3 witnesses to support my evidence of what Cortes did was normal. What I mean by normal is that most European Sailors would treat foreigners differently depending on what materials or valuables that the natives had as soon as the explorers arrived on a new piece land. Most of these explorers would do things out of the name of god. Some explorers gain titles or praises from kings and queens once they conquer and claim new land and bring materials or valuables that the king and queen have never seen before. Everything that has been mentioned was the very definition of normal during this
Witness 1: My name is Christopher Columbus and I am a Genoese explorer, colonizer, and navigator.
Lawyer: What are few things that you have done to earn a name for yourself?
Witness 1: I have done 4 voyages across the Atlantic Ocean and I am known for the discovery of the New World.
Lawyer: If you were to find gold where some natives live, what would you do?
Witness 1: My comrades and I would capture some of the natives and make them slaves and use them for finding gold, if they do not find enough in the day I would order my companions to chop one of their hands off as punishment for not working hard enough. I sometimes take women and children and sell them for more money.
Lawyer: Why is it that you did that, was it common that people did that?
Witness 1: I would do this because I get great benefits from it like riches and authority and power, a lot of Europeans did this during this era, and you could say it was perfectly normal to do this during this time of era.
Lawyer: Was there another reason behind of capturing these natives?
Witness 1: I did take some natives by force simply because they might have given me some information about what are in these part of lands and where the gold might
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Lawyer: As you can see Christopher Columbus has shown that the treatment towards the natives was normal since Cortes had done the same thing and that the fact it was for valuables like gold and wealth and power and to be respected by the people around him and that these actions towards the natives were also because it was normal just because they wanted the natives the respect their God so all this would be normal in that time of era.
Lawyer: I will now call my 2nd witness to the court to support and show what Christopher Columbus and Cortes did was normal.
Lawyer: Please state your name and occupation.
Witness 2: My name is Francisco Pizarro and I am a Spanish conquistador. Lawyer: What are some things that you have done that have affected your way of living?
Witness 2: I settled in Panama City and become famous and the richest in the city and conquered the Incan Empire.
Lawyer: How is it that you conquered the Incan empire and its