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De Vaca And Underhill Summary

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From De Las Cases’ depiction in the materials, the explorers mean devils and despoilers in the South America. In the fourteenth century, many people tried to become explorers to find the new countries. However, most people focus on resource, money, slaves, lands, and honor from their own country instead of following their hoping or wishing to explore the new countries. Based on these explorers’ hoping, explorers become crazier than they were in their town. De Las Cases believes that soldiers and explorers kill and abuse the native speakers in South America. However, from the depiction of De Vaca and Underhill, they have different thought about the treatment to native speakers. The different depiction expresses that the attitudes from Europe explorers different thought to the native people. From De Las Cases’ …show more content…
He did something totally different from De Las Cases. Underhill killed lots of native people especially he even joined a massacre for Dutch. From his argument, he just killed some heathens. His position is in the aggressors. De Vaca’s behavior is little strange. As a Spanish explorer, he expresses his sympathy to native people. However, he never talk about the abuse from aggressors to native speakers even though he wrote a book to depict several tribes in South America. It is little hard to know why he did not say anything. As a person who lives in the modern society, I cannot agree with the massacre’s behavior. However, in the middle ages, people thought that Massacre is a useful method to dominate native residents in colony. Even today, people still use the same way to control others especially in north Africa and terroristic organization. These conflicts happen because of resources, money, race, religion, and honors. The basis of cruel method is rare resource and vast population. It proves that even though brutality may innate quality of humanness, acquired influence and needing plays an essential role about

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