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Essay / Essay on Spanish Colonization - 714
” (De las Casas, “The Devastation of the Indies”) shows that the Spanish have only brutal force to impose on the natives to achieve their goal of empire. Because the Spaniards considered the natives as “heathens, undisciplined and haughty” (De Sistiaga, “A story”) as well as “barbarians, given to idleness, lazy, indolent”. [Who] are very gluttonous and voracious and eat meat almost raw, roasted and dripping with blood. (Fray de Solis, “Journal”). The Spanish firmly believed that they had the privilege of conquering and colonizing the New World to transmit Christianity to the natives, "from which they do not suffer when they are on mission, since the Father helps them in everything, in food and in clothing and other necessities and comforts. They are idle and given to all kinds of vices, including the vices of lasciviousness, theft, systematic theft and dancing. (Fray of Solis,