Compare And Contrast Columbus And De Las Casas

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Reputation gain. Riches. Discovery. Religion. All of these are goals Columbus and de las Casas are both set on the objective to find in the “New World’s”, but with de la Casas comes clear that changing humanity instead was his true prime achievement in all of this. Both stories bring us the two different perspectives of finding greed or compassion and for how this tied in with what life was life like in the 1500’s. These two conquistadores were our first documentation of what was the set creation and start of history from South America to North America. Both people so alike, but so different strands together to bring from our past to the present minds of how things were either left in the past or how the repetition of acts continue through

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