Tuesday's Classwork: 10/22/19

CLASSWORK:


PROSECUTION, DEFENSE & JURY TEAMS:

PROSECUTION & DEFENSE ONLY:

1. Click On Documents A-G and ONLY READ DOCUMENTS A-C today

2. Use the following Graphic Organizer via Google Drive (you will need to make a copy and later print and staple your work) or write by hand on page 40

JURY MEMBERS ONLY:

1. Read Document C from Documents A-G:

2. on page 40 answer the following:

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 does 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, how?