Columbus Paragraph 2 quotes

Colonist Las Casas

I saw cruelty on a scale no living being has ever seen or expects to see… [Spaniards] thought nothing of knifing Indians, and of cutting off slices off them to test the sharpness of their blades

Carol Delaney

the conversion of all peoples to Christianity and the reconquest of Jerusalem are necessary preconditions for the ‘Second Coming’

Letter to King and Queen of Spain

that in seven years from today I will be able to pay Your Highnesses for five thousand cavalry and fifty-thousand-foot soldiers for the war and con-quest of Jerusalem

Second Letter

I urged Your Highnesses to spend all the profits of this my enterprise on the conquest of Jerusalem.

Letter to Pope Alexander VI

This enterprise was undertaken with the purpose of expending what was invested in aiding the holy temple and the holy Church.

Letter to Juan de la Torres

God made me the messenger of the new heaven and the new earth.