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 ===== Analysis ===== ===== Analysis =====
 +[[ap_euro:exploration_dbq#document_1|Document 1]] and [[ap_euro:exploration_dbq#document_2|Document 2]] directly show the conflict that appears early on between materialistic colonizers and religious officials on the treatment of the natives.
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 +[[ap_euro:exploration_dbq#document_2|Document 2]] and [[ap_euro:exploration_dbq#document_3|Document 3]] directly display the brutality of the encomienda system and the ruthlessness of the Spanish colonizers.
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 +[[ap_euro:exploration_dbq#document_2|Document 2]] and [[ap_euro:exploration_dbq#document_4|Document 4]] touch on smallpox.
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 +[[ap_euro:exploration_dbq#document_2|Document 2]] and [[ap_euro:exploration_dbq#document_5|Document 5]] shows the flipside of the religious support, as it is clear that expanding Christianity (specifically Catholicism) is their ulterior motive.
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 +[[ap_euro:exploration_dbq#document_2|Document 2]] and [[ap_euro:exploration_dbq#document_6|Document 6]] represent the "more accepting" side of the religious native-supporters.
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 +[[ap_euro:exploration_dbq#document_2|Document 2]], [[ap_euro:exploration_dbq#document_5|Document 5]], [[ap_euro:exploration_dbq#document_6|Document 6]], and [[ap_euro:exploration_dbq#document_7|Document 7]], particularly their timelines, show the gradual shift in acceptance towards the natives.
  
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   * Columbus was sponsored by the Spanish royalty to explore a possible route to Asia.   * Columbus was sponsored by the Spanish royalty to explore a possible route to Asia.
   * From first impression he views the natives as poor, and sees their wealth of gold as pity from the gods.   * From first impression he views the natives as poor, and sees their wealth of gold as pity from the gods.
-  * His goal is to collect extreme amounts of spices and gold (luxuries), and return to Portugal in April.+  * His goal is to collect extreme amounts of spices and gold (luxuries), and return to Spain in April.
   * This was written in his journal when he was exploring the Bahamas.   * This was written in his journal when he was exploring the Bahamas.
  
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   * Also reaffirms that this was for God, Glory, and Gold.   * Also reaffirms that this was for God, Glory, and Gold.
   * Finally, note the time between Columbus' exploration and the exploitation of the natives, only $1511 - 1492 = 19 \text{ years}$!   * Finally, note the time between Columbus' exploration and the exploitation of the natives, only $1511 - 1492 = 19 \text{ years}$!
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 +==== Document 3 ====
 +> On the day that Tenochtitlán was taken, the Spaniards committed some of the most brutal acts ever inflicted upon the unfortunate people of this land. The cries of the helpless women and children were heart-rending. The Tlaxcaltecas and the other enemies of the Aztecs revenged themselves pitilessly for old offenses and robbed them of everything they could find. Only prince Ixtlilxóchitl of Texcoco, ally of Cortés, felt compassion fro the Aztecs, because they were of his own homeland. He kept his followers from maltreating the women and children as cruelly as did Cortés and the Spaniards ... The anguish and bewilderment of our foes was pitiful to see. The warriors gathers on the rooftops and stared at the ruins of their city in a dazed silence, and the women and children and old men were all weeping.
 +Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxóchitl, whose father was one of the native allies of Cortés, 1520.
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 +=== Notes ===
 +  * The Spanish had no morality when conquering.
 +  * Even the native allies of the Spanish were disgusted,
 +  * Cortés is the Spanish conqueror that fell the Aztec empire.
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 +==== Document 4 ====
 +{{:ap_euro:2020-10-28-115708_435x330_scrot.png |}}
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 +=== Notes ===
 +  * As stated in [[ap_euro:exploration_dbq#document_2|Document 2]], smallpox devastated the native population, wiping almost **90%** of the population
 +  * Also, note the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Fort_Pitt|blankets]]
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 +==== Document 5 ====
 +{{:ap_euro:2020-10-28-120542_618x249_scrot.png?direct|}}
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 +=== Notes ===
 +  * Religion played a large role in supporting the colonization of the new world, as it allowed the Catholic states to spread a religion that is being fought against in the Old World at the time.
 +  * This is an illusion of free choice, as they are given a choice to baptism or not, but will be murdered and enslaved if they don't.
 +  * Also note that this would be spoken to the natives in Spanish, which means that they were given a false ultimatum in a gibberish language. The natives basically had no choice.
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 +==== Document 6 ====
 +{{:ap_euro:2020-10-28-120547_614x158_scrot.png?direct|}}
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 +=== Notes ===
 +  * ''Finally, let all savagery and apparatus of war, which are better suited to Muslims than Christians, be done away with.'' **KEKW** Based and Christian-pilled.
 +  * The more accepting Europeans heavily valued religion and integration with Christianity to save the natives. Which kinda sucks if you don't want to be religious nor conquered/enslaved.
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 +==== Document 7 ====
 +{{:ap_euro:2020-10-28-120552_620x134_scrot.png?direct|}}
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 +=== Notes ===
 +  * Probably the most "accepting" out of all the documents
 +  * Written by a French Renaissance essayist.
 +  * Though there is still ethnocentrism, he argues that they are the natural evolution of humans.
 +  * Unknown if the above is an insult or not.
 +  * Also, the document is named //On Cannibals// which is fucking hilarious.

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