Use the excerpts below to answer the questions that follow.
"And do not believe that before the coming of the Christians they lived in that peaceful reign of Saturn that the
poets describe; on the contrary, they waged continuous and ferocidus war against each other, with such fury
that they considered a victory hardly worthwhile if they did not glut their monstrous hunger with the flesh of
their enemies."
Juan de Sepulveda, The Nature of the Natives, 1550
"God made all the peoples of this area, many and varied as they are, as open and as innocent as can be
imagined. The simplest people in the world - unassuming, long-suffering, unassertive, and submissive - they
are without malice, and are utterly faithful and obedient both to their own native lords and to the Spaniards in
whose service they now find themselves. Never quarrelsome or belligerent or boisterous, they harbour no
grudges and do not seek to settle old scores; indeed, the notions of revenge and hatred are quite foreign to
them."
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, Bartolome de Las Casas, (1542)
Question 1 (1 point)
These excerpts were written in response to the
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8. Debate over the conversion of Native Americans to Catholicism
Debate over how the Spanish should treat the Native Americans
Debate over whether the Spanish should colonize the Americas
Od Accounts of the Native Americans written by Columbus