Church officials condemned all aspects of Spain's colonization of the New World. Church officials argued that the conversion of natives was the most important goal for Spanish colonization the terrible treatment of natives by Spaniards made conversion nearly impossible.ĭ. Church officials objected to the brutal treatment of natives by Spanish colonists. Catholic priests such as Bartolomé de Las Casas defended the rights of natives, while royal officials such as Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda argued that Indians were barbarians. Spanish royal officials demanded that the natives be treated well, while church officials maintained that natives were simply barbarians. Spanish priests such as Dominican friar Bartolomé de Las Casas frequently traveled to the New World.ī. Spanish royal officials refused to allow Catholic priests to travel to the New World to preach to natives. When the king learned that the Captain was dead he grieved much, and not without cause."Ī. the Captain bade him not to leave the ship. The Christian king would have helped us but. And the Captain tried to draw his sword and was able to draw it only half way, because he had been wounded in the arm with a spear. An Indian threw his bamboo spear into his face and he immediately killed him with his own spear. And he, like a good knight, continued to stand firm with a few others, and they fought thus for more than an hour.
They recognized the Captain and so many assailed him that twice they knocked his sallet from his head. And our men withdrew to the shore, fighting all the while. they had so many spears, darts and stones that they could not withstand them, and the artillery of the fleet was so far away that it could not help them. And so great a number came upon us that they pierced the right leg of the Captain with a poisoned arrow, wherefore he ordered that they gradually retreat. shooting so many arrows and hurling bamboo lances, charred pointed stakes, stones and mud at the Captain that he could scarce defend himself. Refer to the passage to answer the following question: ". When the map was made, Europeans would have been curious to learn more about North America. North America was already familiar to most Europeans so there was less demand for a map that detailed its features. The map did not aim to encourage migration by suggesting that India was well known.ĭ. The map was intended to encourage migration to India by assuring potential immigrants that the land was well known.
North America, however, was a recent discovery, and comparatively little was known about its geography.Ĭ. Europeans had known about India since antiquity. Europeans had explored India more often than they had explored North America when the map was made. The purpose of creating the map was to spread knowledge, not hide it. The mapmakers hoped to keep information about North America to themselves to safeguard their trade secrets. Why did Martin Waldseemüller and Mathias Ringmann depict India in greater detail than North America in their 1507 map Universalis Cosmographia?Ī. Text reads, In 1507 German cartographers Waldseemüller and Ringmann produced a map of the To its west is an elongated and thin continent corresponding to the Americas and to its east is a large continent with missing landforms and an erroneously small Indian Ocean, corresponding to Asia. The map shows Africa and Europe in the center.
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