World civilizations ap edition glossary of accounting
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In addition, Pope Alexander VI granted to Spain any new world territory not already claimed by a Christian prince, and these newly discovered lands offered wide opportunities to convert to Christianity large numbers of “heathens.” Religious passions spread widely after Spain had driven Moors and Jews out of the Iberian Peninsula in 1492, and the Pope issued a decree in 1493 exhorting Spain to spread the Catholic faith into new lands. Why did the Spanish land in Hispaniola? In brief, they explored for “God, Gold, and Glory.” King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, known as the “Catholic Monarchs,” sought to centralize Spain as a Catholic stronghold. The following passages detail interactions between Spanish conquistadors and the Taino.
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One of the islands explored during his first voyage in 1492, Columbus found there the self-sufficient Taino tribe, numbering up to 3 million people by some estimates. The first passage describes Hispaniola, the Caribbean island that today includes Haiti and the Dominican Republic. In this lesson you will explore excerpts from one of the first written accounts of interactions between Spanish conquistadors and Native Americans.
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A Brief Account details extremely graphic interactions between the Taino and the Spanish, but by strategic excerption this lesson works to temper the more sensational descriptions of atrocities while remaining true to the tone of the original text. De Las Casas argued to the Spanish King that his agents, the conquistadors, were brutalizing native peoples and that those actions were destroying the Spanish as well as the natives. In the next three excerpts students will investigate the Spanish presence in a specific Hispaniola kingdom, Magua.
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In the first excerpt students will look at the author’s general description of the actions of the Spanish on Hispaniola, home to the Taino Indians. Using excerpts from A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies, published in 1552, students will explore in this lesson how Bartolome de Las Casas (1484–1566) argued for more humane treatment of Native Americans in the Spanish New World colonies. Key Concept 1.2 (IIB) (Spanish colonial economies marshaled Native American labor…).ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.6 (determine author’s point of view).ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.1 (cite evidence to analyze specifically and by inference).