Question

Research the experience of the Native Americans and the conquistadors during the Age of Exploration. Write a dialogue in which 2 characters (a Native American and conquistador) debate the merits of Spain's colonization of the Americas.
Your dialogue should demonstrate and will be graded on:

An understanding of the social effects on Native Americans

An understanding of the conquistadors' views of the natives

An understanding of the value of colonization

Answer 1

(Explorer) - Hello, your society is undeveloped, you have no comfort, you do not market goods and you do not know Christ.

(Native) - Our land has everything we need, we live from hunting and harvesting. What else do we need? Thanks for the tools you gave us to hunt, but your presence brought us diseases we did not have, a lot of people are dying.

(Explorer) - Sorry, but it's for a bigger cause. Our priests will save your soul. In return, you must work for us.