INSTRUCTIONS:
What was the legal basis for Spanish wars against Amerindians? Back your argument using A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies, “Antonio Montesinos’ Sermon On the Fourth Sunday of Advent,” “If You Eat Their Food,” “A War to End All Wars,” Laws of Burgos, 1512-1513, Hernán Cortés’ “Letter to Charles V,” “The Franciscan reply,” “The Age of the Conquerors,” “El Requerimiento,” and “Democrates alter de justis causis belli apud Indios.”