[HIST 8A] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (50 pages long!)
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And if they reject this authority, one can impose it upon them by the use of weapons, and such a war will be just, as natural law declares. (the just causes of war against the indians) The spaniards have a perfect right to rule over these barbarians of the new. In place of those they had, who were barbaric, wicked, and uncivilized, [they will] accept the christians, who cultivate human virtues and the true religion . (the just causes of war against the indians) Montezuma, however, replied : lord malinche, if i had known that you were going to utter these insults i should not have shown you my gods. It was as though their hearts were put to rest, brightened, renewed. For gold was what they greatly thirsted for; they were gluttonous for it, starved for it, they piggishly wanted it. (book xii of the. Florentine codex: and when the spaniards were well settled, right away they interrogated.