8 4 13 Encountering Lost Tribes Europeans and Non Europeans The Spanish as Conquerors Expectations Regulating the Conquest Labor in the Americas Labor and slavery The King s mixed interests Understanding the Conquest or just what IS America anyway The Impossibility of the Americas The Great Spanish Debate The Right to Rule America Captures the European Imagination Picturing the Europeans But are they inferior American Artifacts and Descriptions Terms encomienda encomenderos Gorgos D rer The Spanish as Conquerors Expectations Regulating the Conquest Labor in the Americas Encomenderos in 16th century manuscripts 1 8 4 13 Labor and slavery The King s mixed interests Bartholom de Las Casas Understanding the Conquest or just what is America anyway The Impossibility of the Americas They go naked both men and women They have well shaped bodies in color nearly red They bore holes in their cheeks lips noses and ears and stuff these holes with loose stones crystals marble and alabaster very fine and beautiful this custom is followed alone by the men They have no personal properties and hold all things in common They all live together without a king and without a government and everyone is his own master They take for wives whom they first meet and in all this they have no rule They also war with one another without art or rule and they eat one another and those they slay are eaten for human flesh is a common food In the houses salted human flesh is hung up to dry They live to be 150 years old and they are seldom sick 2 8 4 13 The Great Spanish Debate Representing the 3 leading perspectives 1 Bartolom de las Casas 2 Juan Gin s de Sepulveda 3 Francisco de Vitoria 3 8 4 13 The Right to Rule Juan Gin s de Sepulveda America Captures the European Imagination Picturing the Encounter 4 8 4 13 5 8 4 13 But are they inferior America artifacts and descriptions 6
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