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feel inadequate since the sixteenth century Checking the falling excerpts

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i'm going to be appealing and warrants bellman hispanic fifteen

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fifty two making prior my farm and christian they're processed

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and here's our question The central arguments of the two

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text described in the excerpt reflect what and here are

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potential answers Are opposing views growing debate begin Well just

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in case you forgot By fifteen fifty the controversy over

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spain's treatment of american indians had become so out of

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control that king charles the fifth had to hit the

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pause button on military expansion in the new world Instead

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the king launched what was later known as the viaduct

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leader debate by calling upon rival theologians one he nous

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they said pull vida and bartolomeo de les cassis to

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defend either side of the issue As you can probably

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tell from the except the one thing these guys agreed

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on was that spain definitely had a right to tell

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american indians howto live and what to believe Both theologians

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took it for granted that converting the american indians to

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christianity was an obvious must Knowing this we can go

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ahead and eliminate option a how about choi Si will

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see says that both excerpts reflect spain's reputation is a

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big time bully of the american indians while we can

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see how sea might be right since neither theologian you

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know respected the lives of the indigenous peoples however only

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supposed his excerpt is downright cruel In fact it sparked

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the black pledging a k spain's reputation is the bad

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guys in europe since las casas argument was a wee

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bit nicer when we're just going to nick See option

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d isn't looking much better either Neither passage says anything

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about ending the forced labour of american indians even though

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las casas argument may seem nicer It supported the income

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required natives toe work and give tribute to a spanish

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master so he is a definite no well the correct

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answer is clearly be the excerpt do show us that

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there was some serious debate going on in spain at

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the time One guy's like they're barbarians animals we have

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the right to force them to do what we want

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and the other guys like come on now they're cool

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people How about we try hugging them into submission You

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have to say yeah we're not sure which is creepier

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