Las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies A. Why did the Spaniards conduct a massacre at Cholula? B. What happened to the natives who decided to submit and obey the Spanish? C. Why did las Casas write this book? D. In Yucatán, the son of a chief was sold for what? E. Why does las Casas think the Spaniards committed so many barbaric atrocities? F. How many natives were killed in Venezuela, according to las Casas's estimates? G. When the Spaniards enslaved people in Nicaragua, where did they send them? H. What happened to the natives forced to dive for pearls? I. In Florida, why did a Spaniard mutilate the faces of over 200 people? J. What was the result of las Casas's documentation of the Spaniards' atrocities?