Resources: Lecture #2 Reading #1: Bartolomé de las Casas, “A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies”  Video: “When Worlds Collide” (38 mins.)  https://vimeo.com/14861182  Assignment #2 (due date:  Wednesday, February 17) Unit 2 Discussion Board Questions:  

1. Mestizaje is one of the important concepts in the video “When Worlds Collide,” the creation in the New World of mestizo people and a mestizo culture. Demonstrate your understanding of the concept by discussing the connection between Our Lady of Guadalupe and Tonantzin. (9 points)    

2. Who was Bartolomé de las Casas? What arguments is he making to the King and Queen of Spain in Reading #1? Was he successful in accomplishing some reforms? What impact did the discovery of the Potosí mines have on what de las Casas had accomplished? (8 points)    

3. Identify the following and their significance in the early history of Latin America: (4 points each)

1.     cochineal Isabel

2.     Fernando