■ COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS ■

1. Question

   How do these sources illustrate the extent to which European culture had an impact on native peoples?

2. Question

   In what ways did Hariot, Columbus, and Las Casas apply a European “lens” to their views of indigenous peoples?

3. Question

   What similarities between European and American society and culture can be glimpsed through the windows opened by these sources?

4. Question

   How might the authors of these various texts have assessed the advantages and costs of colonization?