Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Page One Hundred!

1a. What did the Spaniards make native women and children do?
They took them away from their families and forced them to work for them as slaves to feed them and make them things, all the while torturing them and scarcely feeding them. 

1b. Why, according to de las Casas, did the Spaniards want so much food?
They took the Natives for granted, and the small trifles of food they were given out of kindness, just weren't enough. They ate a lot more than the Indians, who had no luxuries in their homeland so they were in shape. The Spaniards however, were fat, gross, and fat... and gross. They needed more food.

2a. How did the Spanish react to native efforts at self-defense?
They retaliated and vowed to kill 100 Indians for every dead Spaniard that fell due to the natives. This wasn't very nice. :(

2b. Why did they punish the natives so severely?
Because they had daddy and mommy problems growing up and needed to take it out on someone later in life. 

Seriously though, they were coming to colonize the place and the Natives were in the way, and when they began to retaliate and kill their own, they really stepped up the violence and realized they were an enemy to their progress/money-making.

3a. How were pearl divers treated by the Spaniards? What word does de las Casas use to describe their labour?
They weren't allowed to rest, show any signs of weakness, or eat that much. They were chained up at night to prevent their escape and the same infernal labour would continue day in, day out. :(

3b. What was the inevitable fate of the pearl divers?
Death due to overworking, sicknesses, sharks! :(

4a. In what various actions do the Spaniards disregard the divine concepts of love for their fellow men? How do the Spaniards seem to regard the Indians?
By stealing all of the Indians food, killing everyone for fun, pretty much everything they did to the Indians had a very negative intention to go along with it. The Spaniards appear to regard the Indians as nothing more than objects; things that did their work for them and things that could be sold for cash!!!

4b. What motivated the Spaniards in all their relations with the natives? What do you think motivated de las Casas in his relations with natives, after his conversion in 1515?
Greed, laziness, gold, wealth, being cruel, sadistic weirdos. Casas had some good sense and like a real Christian who actually believed in the values/morals and applied them to his life and thinking, he understood that htis was indeed wrong and cruel to massacre the Indians and treat them in such a way.

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