I kind of want to see someone answer this, because I have the same question!
The Portuguese King found out that Spain was sponsoring trips to the new world and me became very angry. Then, the King sent a threatening letter to the Catholic Monarchs and in those, he stated that by the Treaty of Alcáçovas, which was signed in 1479 and confirmed in 1481 with the papal bull Æterni regis, all lands at the south of the Canary Islands were granted to Portugal. Which caused them to go to the Pope, which then created a line to divide the new lands between those two countries, in a way to avoid a war that the Spanish most likely would lose.
In the end, Portugual was not pleased with the division, mostly because it prevented them to conquer India witch was a goal pursued by them for a long time. So they went to the Catholic Monarchs to renegotiate directly the position of the line. The treaty of Tordesillas was the diplomatic solution found by the Catholic Monarchs. Curiously, even though the treaty and the resulting line was negotiated without consulting the Pope, some sources call the division the "<em>Papal Line of Demarcation"</em>.
Answer:
To show how poorly they treated them.
Explanation:
Bartolomé De Las Casas was a Spanish Dominican friar who tried to defend the rights of Natives after Spaniards conquered The Americas. He was the first resident bishop of Chiapas, in southern Mexico and also the first one to be named Protector of the Indians. To achieve his goal, he wrote A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, where he narrated all kind of terrible things done by the Spaniards conquerors towards the Native people. By comparing them to the Romans during the conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, De Las Casas showed how the pattern was repeated but now the Spaniards took the role of the conquerors and they were acting like they were treated before.
He tried to - in order to deal with the crippling debts of the French state (mostly incurred by various wars - most recently the French help to the American War of Independence), but he decided that he did not have the authority to impose new taxes. He turned first to an assembly of nobles (it is not true that French nobles paid no taxes - but they were free of some of the more important taxes) and then called an “Estates General” (the first for more than a century) in the hopes that the nobles and church would agree to contribute more money. But the whole thing got horribly out of hand (partly because Louis XVI was a very weak man - but also because he went into mourning for a dead son at a key time politically) and the French Revolution was the result.
I have no idea, but the closest thing I could find was a quote saying, "snapping the shutter"
