Wednesday's Jury Work: 10/19/16

Jury: Bartolome De Las Casas DBQ Part 1: Read and annotate set first set of writings of Bartolome De Las Casas and answer the following questions: Page 48 Standard, Page 37 Honors

1. Why do you think Bartolomé de Las Casas wrote this account? To whom do you think he wrote it?

2. Whose opinions do you think were most prominent during the late fifteenth century: those of Columbus or those of de Las Casas? How and why?

3. How do this reading change your understanding of the consequences of European contact on the native people of the Western Hemisphere (especially if you grew up in Latin America)? Does this view make the Spanish explorers any less heroic? Why or why not? If yes, the how?