Monday, October 1, 2007
summary about my reading.
Zvu Dor-Ner said the Spaniards couldn't see past their ingnorance and greed for gold. The Spaniards were also headed into damnation for intruding onto the Aztecs land, taking them for slaves, and killing many. In the second document, Christianity justified conquest. The king made the requerimiento stating that any Indian that didn't welcome the Spanish deserved to die. The pope was appointed by God to govern all men and to be an admerable great father. Kings and Queens obeyed priests that came to teach holy faith. If you agreed to the authors statement then you would be loved and your family shall stay yours. If you disagreed then your family would be taken away and sold as slaves. Then you would be sent to war. I think it was wrong of the Spaniards to trespass onto the Aztecs land just for their needs and to not think about their lives being harmed, but only of their own. It was a selfish act and they should've just left the Aztecs alone or at least fromed a kinship with them instead of jus killing them off and using them as slaves, because it was their land to begin with.
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