A Game of Risk
On March 13, 1456, when Pope Callitxus the Third issued the papal bull of Inter Caetera to Portugal. This issue reinstated the two earlier bulls of Dum Diversas and Romanus Pontifex which recognized Portugal's rights to territories it had discovered along the West African coast as well as the enslavement of infidels and non-Christians captured there. So what does this really mean to the explorers who will forever be altering the course of history for the Indigenous peoples? Was the hostile war-like conditions justified? Was the little matter of genocide justified? The Catholic Church measures their own thinking that every little deed that they wrote upon was answered in the Old Testament. The policies that were issued …show more content…
You have to take in account that Columbus's crew were rapists and murders. I mean in what mind can such a supposedly powerful man return to Spain, and let 39 men alone on the island with these women? With 1,200 more soldiers at his disposal, rape and pillaging became rampant as well as tolerated by Columbus. The thing that really scares me, and makes me very uncomfortable is what Columbus's close friend Michele de Cuneo who wrote the first disturbing account of a relation between himself and a Native female gift given to him by Columbus. “While I was in the boat I captured a very beautiful Carib woman, whom the said Lord Admiral gave to me, and with whom, having taken her into my cabin, she being naked according to their custom, I conceived desire to take pleasure. I wanted to put my desire into execution but she did not want it and treated me with her finger nails in such a manner that I wished I had never begun. But seeing that (to tell you the end of it all), I took a rope and thrashed her well, for which she raised such unheard of screams that you would not have believed your ears. Finally we came to an agreement in such manner that I can tell you that she seemed to have been brought up in a school of
On March 13, 1456, when Pope Callitxus the Third issued the papal bull of Inter Caetera to Portugal. This issue reinstated the two earlier bulls of Dum Diversas and Romanus Pontifex which recognized Portugal's rights to territories it had discovered along the West African coast as well as the enslavement of infidels and non-Christians captured there. So what does this really mean to the explorers who will forever be altering the course of history for the Indigenous peoples? Was the hostile war-like conditions justified? Was the little matter of genocide justified? The Catholic Church measures their own thinking that every little deed that they wrote upon was answered in the Old Testament. The policies that were issued …show more content…
You have to take in account that Columbus's crew were rapists and murders. I mean in what mind can such a supposedly powerful man return to Spain, and let 39 men alone on the island with these women? With 1,200 more soldiers at his disposal, rape and pillaging became rampant as well as tolerated by Columbus. The thing that really scares me, and makes me very uncomfortable is what Columbus's close friend Michele de Cuneo who wrote the first disturbing account of a relation between himself and a Native female gift given to him by Columbus. “While I was in the boat I captured a very beautiful Carib woman, whom the said Lord Admiral gave to me, and with whom, having taken her into my cabin, she being naked according to their custom, I conceived desire to take pleasure. I wanted to put my desire into execution but she did not want it and treated me with her finger nails in such a manner that I wished I had never begun. But seeing that (to tell you the end of it all), I took a rope and thrashed her well, for which she raised such unheard of screams that you would not have believed your ears. Finally we came to an agreement in such manner that I can tell you that she seemed to have been brought up in a school of