New World Beginnings, 33,000 B. C. A

Sept. 8, 2011

New World Beginnings, 33,000 B.C.- A.D. 1769

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  Amerigo Vespucci (16^th century explorer) wrote letter on his New World experience which was published across Europe with illustrations drawn by artists that never saw it
  

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  Ex of “Renaissance man”: Juan Gines de Sepulveda, a Spaniard that studied in Renaissance Italy, famous as theologian, philosopher, historian, astronomer
  
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  Sepulveda was student of Aristotle and made distinction of “civilized” Greeks and barbarians
  
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  Emperor Charles V convened a debate in Valladolid, Spain determining Spain’s relationship with the first original Americans (Juan Gines Sepulveda)
  

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  Talented, prudence (manages the near - Illiterate, don’t monument events no
  

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  Gentleness, Humanity- care for the institution/customs
  

- Kings elected by vote - Obsessed with fighting other tribes

- Have commerce and houses - Cowardly, timid, cannot endure

soldiers’ presence

- Lack individual belongings to pass

onto heirs

Superiority of Europeans: Indians are inferior is skills, virtues, and humanity because they’re savage like, almost like apes to man.

A.3. Bartolome de Las Casas Defend the Indians (1552)

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  Debated with Sepulveda for Indians
  
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  Dominican friar who  West indies 1502 and disliked Indian treatment
  
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  Became bishop of Guatemala and tried reforming Spanish policies
  
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  “The Destruction of the Indies” spread the “Black Legend” of Spain
  

Bartolome de las casas Sepulveda___________________

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