We protest against the extension of American sovereignty by Spanish methods….” The slaughter of Filipinos was not necessary according to anti-imperialists, along with trying to imperialize the country using “Spanish methods”. Abraham Lincoln once said “that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent. When the white man governs himself, that is self-government, but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism.” The Spanish were despotists, ruling the Filipinos through tyranny and mistreating them. According to Albert J. Beveridge, in his “The March of the Flag” campaign speech, people only need to be governed by another country when they are incapable of self-government. “The
The main reason for the natives’ enslavement was simply because Spain and Portugal viewed them as inferior and easily dominated them. The ways in which Spain and Portugal obtained their wealth were quite different. Spain having landed in a mineral rich environment saw immediate reward for their exploration and began shipping back the vast amounts of gold and silver they found. The ships that carried the gold and silver to Spain where called the Treasure Fleet; though other names were used such as: Silver Fleet, Plate Fleet, and West Indies Fleet. So great was the amount of silver the colonists shipped back that it caused inflation in Spain and hurt its economy.
Spain on the other hand felt that the native people were not using the land to it's full potential. It was their obligation to put the land to better use. Through the generations of colonization and invasion, both the Spanish Empire and the native people met several ups and downs. Spain initially conquered many of the Natives such as the Aztecs and the Pueblos. Eventually the Pueblos blamed the Spanish for their hardships and misfortunes because of the fact that the Spanish had, in a sense, outlawed their ancient rituals and ceremonies.
Not all settlers considered themselves enemies of the natives but sought to better the lives of the natives and so had a second unintentional effect of introducing disease for which the natives had no immunity (Department of Aboriginal Affairs, 2011). The Spanish saw the Islands now known as the Philippine Islands as a prime location for military post and trade center. They conquered the islands with their superior military destroyed their culture as they saw it as Satanic but did not occupy the Islands as a colony and ruled through native chiefs. Much of the culture of the Filipino people before Spanish rule has been lost but the people themselves have remained (Library of congress, 2014). The indigenous people of the continent now known as Australia were a simple people very minimalist in their approach to life and nurturing of the members of their group.
How did so few Spanish manage to conquer such huge territories and the population taking up those lands? And why? The article “Columbus and the War on Indigenous People” written by Michael Stevenson describes the potential arguments that Europeans used to justify their conquest of the Americas. The colonizing process lead to entering and destroying the indigenous people's territories, and developed methods of disciplinary control over their lives, while coming up with various techniques for taking their land. Men and women were willing to leave the Old World and experience the New World, taking a
This made him the first California martyr. This primary source was written in 1772 in the form of a petition. The person that this petition was written to however, is unknown. The purpose of Father Luis Jayme writing this petition or letter was the tell about the poor treatment of the Natives by the Spanish solder’s at the Mission. Father Luis wrote this letter to explain and raise his concerns about what specifically is happening in the mission and to criticize the behavior of the Spanish soldiers.
He also talks about how well-formed the Indians were. Another thing he states is how the Indians believed that everything good came from the heavens, and how he thought he could be able to convert the Indians in Catholicism. What events influenced the way the conquest played out? Events that were occurring during the conquest of the Indians didn’t help them win against the Spaniards. When the Spaniards arrived at the lands of the Indians, the Indians were dealing with either political divisions or internal conflicts.
He discusses the Indian’s culture and customs with a revolting tone for he is completely against the Indian’s incapably of government and rule. Sepulveda provides a clear proof of the barbarity of the Indians. The Indian custom is described as “in these very institutions a proof of the crudity, the barbarity, and the natural slavery of these people” (4). A solution is proposed by Sepulveda stating that the Spanish government can easily change the Indian’s masters into themselves, and that the Christian life can be enforced onto the Indians. By providing a solution to the Spanish government, Sepulveda’s opinion on ruling the Indians becomes logical and more
Explorer Christopher Columbus arrived in the Caribbean islands in 1492, sparking a wave of exploration that would have extreme consequences for the people who lived there at that time. His encounters in the Americas with Native Americans started a repetitive cycle of encounter, conquest, and death throughout the Western Hemisphere. Columbus first had very friendly relationships with the Taino people, but that soon changed. The Tainos offended the Spanish and failed to pay proper respect to Christian symbols and Columbus felt he had authority over them and could decide their fate. The Spanish forced Native Americans to convert to Christianity.
The messages of Christianity spread by the missionaries in the mid fifteenth to eighteenth centuries were differently shaped and received by peoples in the Americas and Asia. Depending on the various native cultural, political, and sociological values, the Christian message took on a different impact to each respective group of people. One on end, in the Americas, the political culture was that of invasive force. Led mainly by the Spanish Catholics, the conquistadors sought to conquer the native lands and peoples in the Americas, like the Incas and Aztecs. The after effects of the invasion including widespread disease and overtaking of native land created a setting in which the religion of the victors could take hold (728).