■ COMPARATIVE AND DISCUSSION QUESTIONS ■

1. Question

   What light do Cortés (Document 14-2) and Columbus (Document 14-3) shed on the motives behind Spanish exploration and colonization of the Americas?

2. Question

   Compare and contrast the two documents on the African slave trade (Documents 14-3 and 14-4). What do these documents reveal about the nature of Portuguese participation?

3. Question

   Based on your reading of the documents in these chapters, which distinctions among peoples seem most important for Europeans of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries? How do the attitudes of the Jesuits toward non-Europeans compare to Montaigne’s?