lets save the native americans from savagery 

(or do we need to save ourselves from savagery) 

So if we remember we started off the class talking about how the idealogical side of Indians... we then decided we had no idea what that meant so we moved on...

SO IMPORTANT FOR THE AP EXAM: WHEN COMPARING PIECES OF WORK, OR JUST READING ANY WORK, IDENTIFY WHO THE AUDIENCE IS!!!!

so montaigne... 

its Mon-TAIN not Mon- TAGNA

His whole point was "Who is the real savage here" 

He DID condemn the indians for cannibalism 

yes i did just use two willy wonka gifs in one post

but he did make the point that watching people get torn limb from limb could possibly be more savage. Also, were they actually savage? It was most likely that the Europeans didn't know how to mesh with the Indians... they had never really encountered such a foreign culture before, so they decided kill them all, you know, the usual. 

we then went back to the idealizing indians and we sort of understood that so that was good...

de las Casa --> said that we should stop killing Indians for gold while using religion as a ruse for it... 

Back to the super important AP exam tip: who were these guys audiences?

Montaigne was much broader in scope, didn't mention specific people: he was mainly addressing europeans as a whole, trying to break the stereotype of indians

de las Casa was very specific, mentioning Charles V, trying to go above the conquistadors heads, to enact his change... you know he had a great plan, just enslave the africans. and as mr. yarn all put it well, truly a man of God.  

basically: montaigne - broad; de las case - narrow

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finally, montaigne is more important than de las casa bc although he wasn't appreciated in his time, he set the ball rolling with skepticism for things to come in later centuries... aka THE ENLIGHTENMENT and THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION... 

said no one ever to montaigne