PLEASE PREPARE THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
1.) What's your gut reaction to the reading?
2.) What was Columbus' background, his motivation for wanting to pursue finding a western route to the Indies and his ideology regarding non-European non-Christians?
3.) What are the origins of plantation slavery that Columbus brought to the Americas? How did Queen Isabella respond to Columbus enslaving indians?
4.) How did Spain explain the purpose of the encomienda system?
5.) How did the Spanish colonists and the King respond to Montesinos' critique of their treatment of the Indians? Why did the King have this reaction?
6.) Explain the function of the Requerimiento in theory compared to it's function in practice.