"The Requirement"

"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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