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Queen Isabella requiredQueen Isabella required the Conquistadors to read to Native populations a statement, warning them that if they did not comply, they would be punished severely. The statement had little effect because it was read to the Native people in Spanish, a language they did not know.

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La's Cases believed that the Spanish were mistreating, exploiting, and in essence working the Indians to death. He believed the Indians had basic human rights Other Spaniards, who were doing the exploiting, etc., felt they were not. They thought about the indigenous Americans somewhat as the slave owners felt about slaves, except that they did not "own" them, so had less responsibility for them than the slave owners

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Q: How did the Spanish address de las Casas's criticisms of their brutal treatment of Native American groups?
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