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The Darkness of Colonialism in The New World from A Short Account of The Destruction of The Indies de las casas Bartolome.
“The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.” Barack Obama.
During the Spanish invasion of the indies, there was a social reformer and historian with Spanish descent known as Bartolome who was writing at this time around the 16th century. A Short Account of The Destruction of The Indies paints the picture vividly. In addition to a commentary that was sarcastic on the brutally exercised on the Hispaniola natives by the colonizers from Spain, he also gives us the readers the reason behind the motivation of the Spain colonizers behavior. The account by Bartolome acts as a reflection of the Spanish empires imperial policies and also as an observation for the colonizer's practices. This was clearly depicted by Bartolome as it brought out the clear picture maybe because he was a Spanish historian that made most out of the writing skills he had or just maybe he was after social reform. Across the writing of The Destruction of The Indies, Bartolome brings the attention crown of the Spanish to the suffering caused and the carnages the empire citizens committed to the natives. Focusing on that Casa is able to utilize a sense of rhetoric that is aimed to bring out sympathy of the persons reading, that is aimed to the natives in addition to the sense of the horror of how the natives were treated by the Spaniards. Casa is able to paint a picture right from the beginning about the nature of the natives that is in the preface; the natives are harmless and simple according to Casa. He further depicts them as, “the simplest people in the world… without guilt or malice… never quarrelsome or belligerent and they harbor no grudges…indeed notions of revenge and hatred are quite foreign to them”.
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2) Indigenous populations in pre-Columbian Latin America varied greatly and were classified as sedentary, semi-sedentary, or non-sedentary based on their lifestyles and social structures.
3) After conquest, sedentary groups faced exploitation of their labor for mining and agriculture to benefit the Spanish crown, resulting in a dramatic decline in indigenous populations over subsequent centuries.
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1) The number seven had special significance in the history and myths of Mexico.
2) Conquistadors like Christopher Columbus and Hernan Cortes publicized their exploits through letters and reports to gain favor and rewards from Spanish monarchs.
3) Diseases brought from Europe devastated native populations, giving the Spaniards a military advantage alongside their technology like horses, guns, and steel weapons.
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