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Someone on here told me that the rational the Spanish used for justifying conquering native Americans (IE claiming the natives were childlike savages that needed to be taken over) was formed during their conquest of the Canary Islands in the 1400s. Can anyone go into that more deeply?

by /u/grapp in /r/AskHistorians

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