Bartolome de Las Casas

Bartolome de Las Casas argues that the Spaniards treated the natives with less respect than they deserved. I agree because the Spaniards treated the many people of the new world as though they were not as important as the Spaniards thought themselves to be. Bartolome says that the natives were actually “innocent sheep” when the Spaniards took advantage of them for their land and gold. I think that because the Spaniards minds were blocked with images of power and wealth, they did whatever they thought they needed to achieve their goal, even if it meant destroying entire villages in their path.