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A 5 page consideration of the motivations that characterized the early interactions between Native Americans and the Europeans that invaded their shores. European peoples not only took advantage of Native Americans but committed one atrocity after another in their attempts to prosper from them. The Native Americans, though initially deceived by the Europeans, quickly learned the lesson that these people were there only out of concern for their own gain. No sources are listed.
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History demonstrates that the initial interactions that unfolded between the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas and the Europeans that invaded their shores were deleterious at best.
The Spanish Conquistadors, while certainly the most brutal of the Europeans, were just one in a long list of European peoples that not only took advantage of Native Americans but
committed one atrocity after another in their attempts to prosper from them. The Native Americans, though initially deceived by the Europeans, quickly learned the lesson that these people were
there only out of concern for thier own gain. Historical Evidence Bartolome de Las Casas, in
a period account from the sixteenth century (1542), observes that the Conquistadors were non discriminatory in the atrocities they wielded on the Native Americans that had the misfortune of falling
in their path. De Las Casas writes that off the Island of Hispaniola the Conquistadors even went so far as to levy bets as to who among them could
inflict the most atrocious injuries, that they: "they opened up his [Native American] bowels.
They tore the babes from their mothers breast and dashed their head against the rocks...threw into the rivers, laughing and joking"
The Aztec were the target of similar injustices. Despite the Conquistadors initial reassurances that they were there just to show their respect, admiration
and love for Moctezuma, the Aztec quickly learned that the Europeans had significantly different motivations. Once they gained access to Moctezumas palace they took him hostage and used him
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