This game review helps students compare and contrast the words and deeds of Las Casas and Sepulveda.

1. Las Casas Cares
Sepulveda Doesn’t

2. My opponent is like a
conscience that
bothers you when you
are having fun.

3. I Became a
Priest
after reading a passage
from the Bible, I had an
Epiphany and changed my
view on enslaving Native
Americans.

4. I believed Aristotle’s
theory that it was
natural for some people
to be masters and some
people to be slaves.

5. I enslaved Native
Americans in the New
World.

6. I blamed Injustice on GREED
said, “The reason why
Christians have killed and
destroyed an infinite
number of souls is that they
have been moved by the
wish for gold their desire
to enrich themselves.”

7. I said, the Indians were
“inferior to the
Spaniards just as
children are to adults,
women to men…and
as apes to men”

8. I persuaded King Charles
of Spain, the grandson
of Isabella Ferdinand,
to enact laws against
enslaving Native
Americans.
(laws had little effect)

9. I wrote books detailing
the atrocities against
Native Americans like
“Tears of the Indian.”

10. My Father bought me a
slave after returning
from a journey with
Columbus.

11. I said,
“The Indians are like
children who need
someone to tell them
what to do.”

12. I wrote, “To these quiet
lands, endowed with such
blessed qualities, came the
Spaniards like the most
cruel tigers, wolves, and
lions, enraged with a sharp
tedious hunger.”