... ). Around the new years of 1519 the disease had reached the Indians of Santo Domingo and is recorded to have killed one-third to one-half of the entire population. Las Casa, an early Spanish conquistador, states that "it left no more than one thousand alive of that immensity of people that was on this island and which we have seen ... ...

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... vassals of the Crown of Castile since such they are. " His ideas verse those of Cortez really developed this schizophrenic approach to the new world within Spain. Bartolomé de Las Casas condemned the horrific acts done to the natives of the Spanish Empire, in American Odyssey he says, "[The Spaniards] deal with them in any ways they wish without regard ... ...

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