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Tenochtitlán |
With a population close to 250,000, Tenochtitlán, the capital of the Aztec empire in what is now Mexico, was one of the world’s largest cities |
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Ninety-Five Thesis |
The list of moral grievances against the Catholic Church by Martin Luther, a German priest, in 1517. |
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Bartolome de Las Casas |
As early as 1537, Pope Paul III, who hoped to see Indians become devout subjects of Catholic monarchs, outlawed their enslavement (an edict never extended to apply to Africans). His decree declared Indians to be “truly men,” who must not be “treated as dumb beasts.” Fifteen years later, the Dominican priest Bartolomé de Las Casas published an account of the decimation of the Indian population with the compelling title A Very Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies. Las Casas’s father had sailed on Columbus’s second voyage, and he himself had participated in the conquest of Cuba. But in 1514 Las Casas freed his own Indian slaves and began to preach against the injustices of Spanish rule. |
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Reconquista |
The “reconquest” of Spain from the Moors completed by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella in 1492. |
