What do these selections tell us about the Spanish conquest of the Americas?
What do these selections tell us about the Spaniards who witnessed these events?
The arrival of the Europeans to the Americas was accompanied by the rapid destruction of native culture. A tremendous amount of native cultural artifacts, customs, and languages were loss in the process. Yet many of them survived.
Historians not only write about the past, they also engage each other in long and lively debates about what they study, write about and research. It is from these exchanges that the historians’ scholarship emerges.
Using the documents found in Lewis Hanke & Jane M. Rausch, eds. People and Issues in Latin American History: The colonial experience, 95-137 you are to discuss them using the following questions.
What do these selections tell us about the Spanish conquest of the Americas? What do these selections tell us about the Spaniards who witnessed these events?