1. After reading, In Defense of the Indians, Bartolome De Las Casas makes it clear that there is a parallel between the Romans and the Spaniards with their justifications of bettering the uncivilized. Once Caesar Augustus had his empire; he exploited the people of Spain and said he was upholding the law for doing so. Hernando Cortes also conquered a lot of the new world with the help of the Native Americans, then stated their way of life was wrong and needed to be changed for the good of their society. Both of these men used the people they were trying to defeat as a tool before enslaving them and calling it necessary.
