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“march of 1435 he massed together several hundred armored troops, cavalry, and a score or more of trained attack dogs. They set forth across the countryside tearing into assembled masses of sick

and unarmed native people, slaughtering them by the thousands. The pattern set by the raids would be the model the Spanish would follow for the next decade and beyond.
David E Stannard’s “

(the other excerpt was about “on Columbus day, celebrate western civilization not multiculturalism” )


• briefly explain ONE example from the period 1491-1607 not explicitly mentioned in the excerpts could be used to support Stannard’s argument

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Answer:

Both Crosby and West see the effects as mostly unintentional

and systemic, coming from the animals themselves, rather

than as the result of intentional actions by Europeans or

Native Americans.

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