05 Spanish Conquest Presentation.notebook

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September 12, 2016

(The Execution of the Inca)

Group Tasks

Handout A• Using the evidence provided from the excerpts, evaluate whether the treatment of the native peoples by the Spanish was intentional and warranting the use of the term genocide or holocaust.

Handout B / American Sprit 34• Describe how Sepulveda feels about the natives.  How does he justify his beliefs?

Handout C / American Spirit 46• Explain how De Las Casas counters Sepulveda's view of the native peoples.  Why does he feel this way?

"You should appoint to the . . . mainlands and islands worthy, Godfearing, learned, skilled, and experienced men, in order to instruct the . . . inhabitants and residents in the Catholic faith and train them in good morals.  Furthermore, under penalty of excommunication . . . should anyone thus contravene we strictly forbid all persons of whatsoever rank."                              

   Papul Bull, Inter Caetera    May 4, 1493

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Attachments

Aim # 3.doc

Aim # 3: To what extent could the Spanish

conquest be considered the American

Holocaust?

SWBATU: the similarities and differences btw. the Spanish conquest and “The

Holocaust”

Materials: Issues; Spirit 1

Read Issues (12-14) “What is the Pope doing?” (1/3 class)

Spirit (3-?) 1/3 class reads Sepulveda; 1/3class read Las Casas

How would you describe Sepulveda’s attitude toward the Indians and why?

How would describe Las Casas’s attitude toward the Indians and why?

Why is the Church involved in colonization?

Debate: To what extent is the comparison to the Holocaust valid?

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