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Since the beginning of time European culture has had an appetite for conquest. The insatiable hunger for power has driven many a powerful man to yearn for more. For those in the western hemisphere, European conquest of the Americas is probably the first of these endeavors to come to mind. Europeans trampled the lives of Africans and Native Americans in their search for American soil. Most people can easily see the differences that lay between these three groups (their beliefs, their culture), but similarities exist among them as well, such their views of one another. European objectives in the Americas were so oppressive they finally forced their own descendants to rebel and revolt against the mother country. Here again, similarities and differences between the ideas of these two groups can be found, relating to beliefs and, furthermore, bonds. In European conquest three main groups are considered; the Europeans, of course, the Native Americans, and the Africans. All three had their very own, unique views on European conquest. Differences in opinion are bound to rise between the conquerors and the conquered, no matter what time or place it occurs. The same was true for these three groups. The Europeans viewed themselves as apostles to God, conducting their heinous in the name of God gave them all the justification they needed, as David Pierterzen DeVries points out in his book, Voyages from Holland to America, “He had with his comurderers, determined to commit the murder, deeming it a Roman deed…” (DeVries, 58). Native Americans like the Aztecs, however, saw their conquerors as long awaited gods, “‘You have come to your city, Mexico.
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