... of life" provided this persuasion was peaceful. Las Casas' argument was compelling but idealistic in the extreme: Spain ought to abandon its claim on the New World and withdraw its conquistadors with all the Indians un-Christianized, rather than bring them into the fold by profoundly un-Christian methods. To practical administrators at the empire, Las Casas' position was dangerous. Aristocrats ...
... of the world outside my apartment. i don't know what kind of an asshole thought it would be a good idea to build a city here. like, you would think after the first wave of Spanishconquistadors froze to death in this horrible desert they would have went back south and never came back, but no, they had to stay and establish a colony and now five hundred years later stupid me and the stupid PSE ...
... fun, and sometimes they put them back in their boats and pat them on the heads, sending them on their way with platitudes about how humanity isn't ready for the knowledge. We're not the conquistadors. We're the natives. Sam doesn't think the people of Earth would deal well with that. Jack and Daniel both know it. Daniel talks a lot about cargo cults and Renaissance Neoplatonism as a response to...
...time that ocean voyages became more common and profitable, bringing riches from distant lands without the energy expenditure involved in primitive overland travel. This was the time of Columbus and the laterConquistadors who essentially raided the New World of all the gold and silver they could float east, metals that greatly expanded the money supplies of Europe. Several of the colonial powers, ...
.... "You mean he was from Valeria? Wait -- isn't that the country that you guys went out and conquered, what, thirty years ago? And to think that you complain that we're conquistadors," he added somewhat bitterly. Ashura smiled dryly. "Perhaps. But there are some differences. It began when we received a most unusual letter, delivered by a messenger half-dead from exhaustion and injuries, signed...
... or treaties or truces. We need to spend every minute of our day out there, hunting them down, before their numbers grow too great for us to handle. We don't have time to play politics or conquistadors in other countries. There aren't enough of us to spare!" "That's why she's so intent on training new hunters," Souma suggestedquietly, from the wall. "Yes, and that --!" He spun around to face ...
...had come over me, which was that my shorthand and not very accurate way of describing the novel ("Conquistadors in the Amazonjungle") suddenly, and tauntingly, seemed vastly more interesting than the story I was .... It'll be a short and awkward length for a novel, and perhaps not publishable, but the conquistadors will at least be out of my head and I can start concentrating on something else. In ...
... half - $10 Papow - $16 Summer’s Last Will & Testament – minus 2 decants - $8 – possibly pending TKO v3 proto - $27 ARCANA (samples - $2): Dia de los Muertos - Though Spanishconquistadors tried to put the kibosh on this Aztec ritual for the dead, the holiday not only endured but retained its flamingly pagan core. Celebrate, honor, and even laugh at death with our fusion of spices, honey, ...
...? was it belief in god, or organied religion, which has regularly turned its back on the suffering and death of all who believe differently? was it belief in god which infected the "explorers" and conquistadors with gold lust? was it belief in god which told them the natives they found weren't human and therefore subject to any treatment the eurpoeans felt like dishing out (with the two most ...
... in me words to make you fall in love and speak in tongues, saving definitions for when time chooses you to slain in the spirit father and son present when I give birth to conquistadorskneeling bloodbath altars tonight I fell in love, again my pupils activated without artificial additives my skin in an electrified chill the me before in those nights were not worth it the me now in ...