Impact Of European Exploration

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From the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, Europeans explored and colonized parts of Asia, Africa, and the Americas. As the Europeans continued to discover more fertile and lush areas of the world their greed and lust for wanting control only became enraged. This caused them to treat the people horrible unjust and their cruel enslavement over the people only increased eventually causing the people to rebel for their independence. Bartolome de Las Casas’s story of the Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies is a perfect example of the Spaniards greed, selfishness, and brutality to other human beings. He opens the story up by describing the natives of the Indies. According the Bartolome “these people are the most devoid of wickedness and duplicity, the most obedient and faithful to their native masters and to the Spanish Christians whom they serve. They were a great people not caring for earthly things which was why they were not arrogant or greedy people. Instead of caring for earthly things, they were very peaceful, caring greatly for others and their wellbeing. Sadly, it was after some Spaniards had already settled there and were at peace with the Indians, that some of the other Spaniards heard that they had the healthiest land in the world “more fertile and beautiful than the gardens of the king of Seville”. Once the other Spaniards got there they saw all that the land had to offer. They were immediately filled with nothing but gluttony and started behaving like ravening wild beasts. They started killing, torturing, and destroying the native people with no mercy. The Spaniards were so ruthless “they attacked the towns and spared neither the children nor the aged nor pregnant women in childbed, not only stabbing them and diminishing them but cutting them into pieces as if dealing with sheep in the slaughter house”. They had no remorse for other living

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