Please answer the following questions in a single paragraph each:
1. According to De Las Casas, why were the Spanish so cruel to the natives? What was the point?
2. According to De Las Casas, did any of the natives ever fight back? If so, why? If not, why not?
3. De Las Casas wrote this account 50 years after Columbus initially arrived in Hispaniola. Do you think this could have influenced his perceptions of the events? How and why? What happens when someone writes about an event after most of the consequences of an event are already known?