COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

1. How do Bernal Díaz del Castillo, the Lienzo de Tlaxcala, and Bartolomé de Las Casas portray native peoples? Can you trust these portraits? What do they reveal about the ways in which Europeans and native peoples viewed themselves?

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   How do Bernal Díaz del Castillo, the Lienzo de Tlaxcala, and Bartolomé de Las Casas portray native peoples? Can you trust these portraits? What do they reveal about the ways in which Europeans and native peoples viewed themselves?
2. According to Las Casas, Amerindians were not “barbarians” because they had many marks of “civilization,” including cities and self-sustaining governments. What evidence can you find in Díaz to support this view?

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   According to Las Casas, Amerindians were not “barbarians” because they had many marks of “civilization,” including cities and self-sustaining governments. What evidence can you find in Díaz to support this view?
3. What similarities and/or differences do you see among Luther, Calvin, and Ignatius’s models of Christian life?

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   What similarities and/or differences do you see among Luther, Calvin, and Ignatius’s models of Christian life?
4. How do you think Las Casas might have responded to Ignatius’s advice to Jesuit missionaries in Portugal? What does this suggest about the role of Catholic Christianity in European colonization?

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   How do you think Las Casas might have responded to Ignatius’s advice to Jesuit missionaries in Portugal? What does this suggest about the role of Catholic Christianity in European colonization?