Why and how did Columbus and other European invaders commit genocides? What motivated European invaders? How have genocides affected Natives in terms of land and population loss, and loss of power and cultures? Knowing about Native genocides, how should this affect how Natives are treated today? Include Native survival tactics from military resistance to assimilation and mixing to use of European institutions like Spanish laws and Christian churches. Include non-Natives who opposed genocide such as Catholic priests, monks, and monarchs. How did these genocides finally end? How much are Americans and Latin Americans taught about genocides in Latin America compared to other genocides such as the Holocaust, and why?
4. Compare broadly the cultures and histories of any two indigenous peoples below, their political philosophy and systems, science and technology, and conquest and survival. What explains the successes and failures of each European invasion against these different Native nations or cultural groups? Aztecs, Incas, Mayas, Tainos, Mapuches. Pick two.
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