Bartolomé de las Casas

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When the story of “Diana and Actaeon” is mentioned, one’s mind most commonly recalls the episode in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, in which Actaeon accidentally stumbles upon the goddess Diana naked in the woods during a hunting trip, and she metamorphoses him into a deer; therefore, his hunting dogs devour him (Ovid 55). “Diana and Actaeon” is a very well known episode from the Metamorphoses; it is where Ovid first delves into a discussion of whether the gods are just in their punishments towards…

The film opens up at the point where Santa Anna has gained victory in defeating the American/Texan Army at the Alamo. Sam Houston is then shown being told what occurred at the Alamo. From this point we see the film transitions into a flashback a year before the battle to introduces us to the important people of the battle and show us how it lead to it. We are shown that Sam Houston is at a party where he is talking to people about Texas and how they should immigrate to it. At the party Houston…

report and appeal for aid where he continues to express how limited he is in resources and how fruitful the enemy is in resources and still expecting more. They are trying to keep good spirits at the camp but it is getting difficult. In Jose Enrique De La Pena, “The Fall of the Alamo,” March 6, 1836 it was stated that many thought that Travis would surrender when supplies ran low but he did not.…

and reclaimed the other cities the rebels had captured. Eventually, they reached Chilpancingo. Morelos was forced into the countryside. A year later, he was captured and executed. He is defeated by the royalist forces of the mestizo general Agustin de Iturbide and the revolution’s leadership is passed to Vicente…

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As shown by Bartolome de Las Casas’s testimony, the occupation of the Americas by the Spanish and their reasons for being there led to more harm than good for the natives. The reasons that Spain came to the Americas, in reality, were for their own benefit. In the first place, Spain set out to the Americas to spread Christianity. Spain felt a sense of superiority in their “higher mission” of sharing the Gospel, which unfortunately added to the feeling of “ethnic superiority”.…

Las Casas also rebuttals Sepúlveda’s second claim: the Indians need intervention because of their use of barbarous society and practices. First off, Las Casas analyzes whether or not Spain has jurisdiction to intervene in this matter. He claims that under temporal jurisdiction, spiritual matters are not matters of the state for idolaters living in the Christian kingdom. Moreover, idolaters living outside the Christian kingdom are neither problems of the state nor the church. Even when looking at…

superiority over Natives, but to their excessive cruelty. Las Casas viewed the ulterior motives of European conquest--exploitation of a population incapable of resisting their advances. Bartolomé denounced the Spaniard 's treatment of the natives and urged the papacy to pass the New Laws of 1542; the New Laws prohibited Indian slavery and punished individuals responsible for the Peruvian Civil War by stripping away their encomiendas. Las Casas ' objective was to humanize the Native Amerindians,…

Christopher Columbus, Bartolomè de Las Casas, and Bernal Dìaz del Castillo shared a commonality that they were all Spanish explorers in search of the New World. Upon exploring parts of the New World each explorer encountered the natives of this land. Christopher Columbus’s encounter with the natives was from afar because the natives were very skeptical of the ships and the people aboard. The natives observed Columbus and his crew from canoes. Columbus states “that the men he saw in the canoes…