Western Civilization

Discussion Question:

Read Spielvogel Chapter 14 and:

Christopher Columbus' Letter to the King and Queen of Spain, 1494:

http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/halsall/source/columbus2.asp

Richard Hakluyt, Discourse on Western Planting ("Planting" refers to colonization) 

http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/amerbegin/exploration/text5/hakluyt.pdf

Please answer the following questions that explores issues relating to European contact with the wider world and characterizes their intentions in colonizing the New World.

1. What were the chief motives for European expansion in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?

2. What is Columbus' plan to settle the island of Hispaniola (Espanola)? What were his suggestions for the laying out of towns and for providing town government?

3. Each of the authors mentions Native Americans in their respective documents, does either have much concern for the peoples of the Americas? Why or why not?