People and Empires By Alex Serrato

Kant•Kant believe that human conflict was

nature’s means of forcing primitive men to leave the settled comfortable boundaries of

their homes.•Kant credited nature with too much insight.

•Kant thinking of war was different, it emerged out of the eastern Mediterranean

and the steppes in the late bronze age.•Kant says war has contributed more than

any other single factor to the steady distribution of peoples around the world.

Bartolome de Las Casas•He was known as a “great lover of the

rigors of religion,” a very devout and fiery preacher, and “very choleric in his

words.”•He lunched “with pugnacious and terrible words” into an attack on the conscience of

the Spaniards, which he likened to a “sterile desert.”

•They were words, Las Casas later remembered, that “made the Spaniards’

flash creep as if they already stood before divine judgment.”

Las Casas•Las Casas wrote a great deal-histories,

political and theological treatises, ethnographies, and innumerable

pamphlets.•In 1543 he was made bishop of Chiapas

in southern Mexico, a region that from his day to this has been a predominantly

Indian area.•He attempted to establish communities of

the kind the missionaries believed they might have been able to create if the Spanish colonists had not got there.