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The Spaniards with their horses, their spears and lances, began to commit murders and other strange cruelties. They entered into towns and villages, sparing neither children nor old men and women. They ripped their bellies and cut them to pieces as if they had been slaughtering lambs in a field. They made bets with each other over who could thrust a sword into the middle of a man or who could cut off his head with one stroke. They took little ones by their heels and crushed their heads against the cliffs. Others they threw into the rivers laughing and mocking them as they tumbled into the water. They put everyone they met to the edge of the sword.
One time I saw four or five important native nobles roasted and broiled upon makeshift grills. The cried out pitifully. This thing troubled our Captain that he could not sleep. He commanded that they be strangled. The Sergeant (I know him and his friends from Seville) would not strangle them but put bullets into their mouths instead.
I have seen all these things and others infinite. Most tried to flee. They tried to hide in the mountains. They tried to flee from these men. Men who were empty of all pity, behaving like savage beasts. They are nothing more than slaughterers and enemies of mankind.
These evil men had even taught their hounds, fierce dogs, to tear natives to pieces at first sight.
AND, when, although rare, the Indians put to death some Spaniards upon good right and law of justice; the Spaniards made an agreement that for every one Spaniard killed they had to slay one hundred Indians.
One time the Indians came to meet us and receive us with food and good cheer! Instead, the devil, which had put himself in the Spaniards, put them all to the edge of the sword in my presence, without any cause whatsoever, more than three thousand souls. I saw there such great cruelties, that never any man living either have or shall see the like.
In three or four months (myself being present) there died more than six thousand children, which the Spanish had sent into the Gold mines.
Why were the Spanish able to defeat the Native Americans so easily?
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GPT 3.5
The Spanish were able to defeat the Native Americans so easily due to a combination of factors.
Firstly, the Spanish had advanced weaponry such as guns, spears, and horses, which the Native Americans did not have. This gave the Spanish a significant advantage in battles.
Secondly, the Spanish had the advantage of steel armor, which provided them with better protection in combat.
Furthermore, the Spanish had superior military tactics and strategies, as well as a mindset of ruthless aggression and cruelty. They were willing to commit acts of extreme violence and brutality in order to assert their dominance.
Additionally, the Native American populations were already weakened by diseases brought over by the Spanish, such as smallpox, which decimated their populations and made them more vulnerable to Spanish conquest.
Overall, the combination of advanced weaponry, military tactics, disease, and brutality allowed the Spanish to easily defeat the Native Americans and assert their dominance over them.
Firstly, the Spanish had advanced weaponry such as guns, spears, and horses, which the Native Americans did not have. This gave the Spanish a significant advantage in battles.
Secondly, the Spanish had the advantage of steel armor, which provided them with better protection in combat.
Furthermore, the Spanish had superior military tactics and strategies, as well as a mindset of ruthless aggression and cruelty. They were willing to commit acts of extreme violence and brutality in order to assert their dominance.
Additionally, the Native American populations were already weakened by diseases brought over by the Spanish, such as smallpox, which decimated their populations and made them more vulnerable to Spanish conquest.
Overall, the combination of advanced weaponry, military tactics, disease, and brutality allowed the Spanish to easily defeat the Native Americans and assert their dominance over them.