Bartolomé de las Casas‚ The Devastation of the Indies (1565) And of all the infinite universe of humanity‚ these people are the most guileless‚ the most devoid of wickedness and duplicity‚ the most obedient and faithful to their native masters and to the Spanish Christians whom they serve. They are by nature the most humble‚ patient‚ and peaceable‚ holding no grudges‚ free from embroilments‚ neither excitable nor quarrelsome. These people are the most devoid of rancors‚ hatreds‚ or desire
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A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies is an document that shows the truth of Indian life during the time they was ruled by Europeans‚ or Spaniards more precisely. Whether the arrivals of them in the Americas was beneficial or harmful to the human race may take a long discussion and is dependable on different people’s thought. From my perspectives‚ that result has both negative and positive to human races‚ and each is for the past and the future. It cannot be denied that the appearance
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In Bartolome De Las Casas’s “from The Very Brief Relation of the Devastation of the Indies” a lot of descriptive verbiage is utilized to paint a distinct picture of good vs. evil in an unjust world. Referencing the Spaniards as Christians is done with a great deal of anger‚ and sarcasm. These Spaniards performed many acts of evil as they brutally tortured‚ killed‚ and enslaved the Native American peoples. According to De Las Casas “they attacked the towns and spared neither the children nor the
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document entitled “Bartolomé de las Casas‚ from Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies.” Bartolomé de las Casas‚ who spent most of his time in the New World protecting the native people that lived there‚ authored the document in 1542. The main reason for the writing of the document was to portray the devastation of the crimes made by Spaniards against the Indians who inhabited the islands of the Indies. The author wrote this document as an objective account of how the Spaniards‚ upon their
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article‚ de Las Casas makes another interesting comment about Christians’ another terrific action towards Indians. After taking the exiled king of India‚ Christians send him in a vessel to another place. But many Christians are drowned along with the king. The significant point is that there were very huge amount of gold in the shipwreck and the comment made by de Las Casas points out the real condition: "Such was God’s vengeance for so many terrible injustices." Bartolome de Las Casas gives another
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Zhe Cui Prof. Nicholas MKTG-342 Case Analysis Feb 27‚ 2015 La Casa de Las Botas 1. Summary La Casa de Las Botas is a small company which has luxurious retail space in downtown Buenos Aires and a little workshop located about 10km to the west. El Señor Jorge Da Silva Villagrán‚ the company founder and owner‚ used to work as an apprentice for Pierri Company for fifteen years. When Mr. Pierri was retiring along with some of his employees‚ Jorge decided to buy the business from him in 1989‚ since he
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Columbus and de la Casas make two very different observations of the new world. Columbus made many detailed descriptions in his letter to the King Ferdinand‚ who had financed his journey with the intentions of completing three very clear goals. The first‚ “to procure riches for the Spanish empire‚” the second‚ “to find a new route to the East Indies‚” and lastly‚ “to convert native peoples to Christianity (Casper et al.‚ 4).” de la Casas had a much different intention than Columbus for why he journeyed
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After reading the short text called “A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies‚” by Bartolomé de Las Casas‚ I was surprised at the brutality and coldheartedness of the Spaniards towards the Indian natives. I knew that they did some horrible things from previous history classes and what not‚ but actually reading about some of the specific things they did was a bit hard to take in. An example of this is the following quote: “And thus pregnant and nursing women and children and old persons and
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Q2: 2A. Las Casas was located in the New World‚ more specifically‚ on an island where natives were enslaved by the Spaniards. He was right in the midst of encountering Indian treatment at its cruelest. It would be hard not to form a bias when Indians who seem to do no wrong are being tortured for what appears to be for the sake of the invader’s enjoyment. 2B. Because Las Casas was a priest‚ he becomes a much more reliable source than the average person because of religious reputation. Priests should
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September 28‚ 2017 De Las Casas The author of the primary source titled “A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies” is Bartolomé de las Casas‚ a Spanish colonist‚ social reformer and Dominican friar from the 16th-century. He became the first resident Bishop of Chiapas‚ the first officially appointed Protector of the Indians and was also appointed an officer of the King of Spain in the New World. Based on these positions he held‚ it could be acknowledged that De Las Casas was higher up on the
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