"I implore you to recognize the Church as a lady and in
the name of the Pope take the King as lord of this land and obey his
mandates. If you do not do it, I tell you that with the help of God I
will enter powerfully against you all. I will make war everywhere and
every way that I can. I will take your women and children and make them
slaves...The deaths and injuries you will receive from here on will be
your own fault and not that of his majesty nor of the gentlemen that
accompany me. --"The Requirement", read by Spaniards (in Latin) to
native tribes they encountered in the New World
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