Tom 166-171 Flashcards
What does Tomkins describe as the characterization of 16th-century European expansion?
The alliance between Christianity
and Commerce
Upon arriving, what would the commander read to the natives?
A decree explaining that the Pope ruled the earth
What language was the commander’s decree read in?
Spanish
When people willingly converted, how were they treated?
Willing converts were sent to live in labor camps
What was the goal the Europeans had for those they kidnapped as slaves?
Those kidnapped as slaves can, “being used by Christians, be converted to our faith more quickly”
What group was horrified by the labor camps?
Monks
Who protested in a sermon against the treatment of the natives?
Dominican Antonio de Montesinos
Who was the labor camp manager that became a Dominican priest, and later the first advocate for human rights?
Bartholomew de las Casas
Which side of the Pope’s line did the Portuguese receive?
East side
What was the group of Christians residing in India before the Europeans forced them into Roman Catholicism?
St. Thomas’s church
Some Indians converted to Roman Catholicism for a reason other than force. What was this reason?
Some converted because they were promised protection against the Muslims
Which founding Jesuit claimed that dignity came from washing ones’ own underwear?
Francis Xavier
What were the 2 Japanese objections to Roman Catholicism?
1) God cannot be good and merciful if he was not known to us before you came
2) Why don’t the Chinese know about him?
