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AP U.S. History 3.5 Period 1: 1491-1607. The perspective of Las Casas's work as described in the excerpt reflects the continuation of which Spanish empire-building motivation?


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

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brought to you by pacifying if only all global conflicts

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could be solved with a binky I check out the

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following excerpts in fifteen forty seven and a democrat thanks

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and pulled that i'm in a fifteen fifty dominican friar

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proselytism All right And now for a question the perspective

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of las casas work as described in the excerpt reflects

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the continuation of which spanish empire building motivation And here

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your potential answers that we're thinking about that torture device

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is pretty good i promise All right so everybody knows

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that spain loved building empires like if they love it

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so much why don't you marry it Kind of love

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but the key here is figuring out which motivation for

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building empires las casas is supporting well there's nothing in

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the passage to support choice Hey sure spain was all

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about gaining as much power as possible but lost Casas

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doesn't seem to have a thirst for power and status

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so we can cross out Eh He also doesn't argue

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for choice b in this passage there's no doubt that

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spain as a whole thought that enslaving native americans was

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a great opportunity to gain a continent full of free

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laborers but there's nothing in the excerpt that shows us

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that las casas necessarily agreed with his homeland on this

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one option D is tricky The passage does show that

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last tosses believed in pacifying the native people with kindness

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but this was not high on the priority list for

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his empire building Countrymen let's face it kind of hard

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to build an empire with hugs and kisses so we

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can cross out deep And so the magic of the

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process of elimination has brought us to choice See the

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correct answer After ferdinand and isabella jump started the bloody

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days of the inquisition bane went onto a hot streak

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enforcing the catholic religion upon others It was all pretty

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messed up Although las casas was an advocate of spreading

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christianity he argued that american indians would become christians on

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their own if the spanish were just nice to them

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In other words he figured if spain shower the natives

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with the right amount of hallmark cards and care packages

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they'd forget that their entire culture was being annihilated by 00:02:16.23 --> [endTime] a foreign invader Now that's compassion

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