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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop du jour

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brought to you by the new world because the old

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world couldn't make it up the stairs to deliver it

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We'll check the falling excerpts in fifteen ninety seven theology

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and alternate indian books opponent fifteen Fifteen friar peaceful process

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Uh and now for our question the argument presented in

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the description of suppose it has worked most closely Parallels

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which of the following ideas and here's potential answers on

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english power Plaything Good All right one heen a day

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Sepulveda was all about the bogus philosophy that certain groups

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of people were born to be slaves Unfortunately this idea

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wasn't particularly controversial during this time On the contrary it

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actually drove a bunch of new world economies for hundreds

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of years All right Well with all that in mind

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we think that is the right answer Sepulveda probably did

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think that non american indians were entitled to a cz

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much new world land as they wanted an idea better

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known as manifest destiny However he was more interested in

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spanish land entitlement And last we checked the spanish aren't

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anglo saxon You have to go to great britain to

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find those folks and no they don't all play the

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sax way were disappointed too it's likely that supported it

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would also agree with option b based on the passage

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it's not totally crazy to think he'd be into the

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idea that on ly strong people gain wealth and power

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a concept known as social darwinism But again this passage

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is specifically focused on spain's right to grind native americans

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under its heel De felitta isn't theorizing about how he'll

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grinders everywhere have the right to grind the powerless into

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submission Well choice do you might be the most obviously

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wrong in a bunch this guy's making a case for

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force religious conversion what's rational about that believe it or

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not supposedto actually was considered a philosopher of humanism of

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philosophy that thinks solving problems with logic is well just

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swell However that idea is not the basis of his

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argument in this passage Well we need to look no

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further than answer c to pin down where simple that

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is coming from here This guy's convinced that enslaving people

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you deemed inferior is a positive way to make a

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difference in the world So while his thinking is wrong

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on so many levels it does happen to be our

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right answer And speaking of levels is the old world

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still trying to get up the stairs Now Someone should 00:02:25.74 --> [endTime] tell us that there's an elevator in here somewhere

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