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Las Casa's Conquest Of The Carrabin

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If religion was the moral excuses for the conquest of the carbine, then gold was the motive. Las Casas believed the Spanish lust for gold is the reason they treated the natives of the Carrabin so harshly. He states multiple times that Spaniards greed has blinded them and caused them to stray from Christ. The assumption that Las Casa makes influences his portrayal of the natives. In his account, he revels that the natives have a strong distract for the Spaniards thirst for gold. Hatuey a Native of Cuba explains to his fellow kens men that he believe that god of the Spaniards is gold. This scene not only proves La Casa portrayal of the natives but also shows how the Spaniards greed is over shadowing the native’s views of Christianity. To prove

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