In the book, "A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies,"" author Bartolome' de Las Casas, describes the brutal events that took place during the late 1400's and early 1500's with the interaction between the Spanish and native people. The brutal awakening illustrated by De Las Casas in his account allows us to see that the Spanish were not so kind to the people of the New World based on their horrific acts of raping the native women, killing innocent babies and helpless elderly, also killing women who were pregnant, using them as slaves and overall putting fear into all of the native people and its leaders by doing so in the strangest and most varied new methods of cruelty ever seen or heard of especially by men who claimed to have been Christians. .
The Spanish would have wide gibbets and would hang up multiple natives at a time so there feet were slightly off the ground and burn them while being hung. Another cruel method the Spanish would do is set their dogs lose to also kill the natives and sometimes just eat them while being hung. Many horrific things took place for no justified reason by the Spanish to the natives because of selfishness and greed, when all the natives wanted to do was make trades and have peace with people they have never seen or heard of before. Soon the natives learned that these so called Christians were not men from the heavens, but instead from hell and did everything to run away and hide wherever they could.
Before the Spanish set sail from Europe they already had a few goals in mind that they wanted to achieve when they made it to their destination, which was the Americas. One of the goals the Spanish wanted to accomplish when setting foot on the new land was converting everyone they had come in contact with to Christianity. For the Spanish it would have been easy for them to do so because the natives had no idea what Christianity was and their brains were somewhat like a child's in which they can be taught many things.