Compare how the indigenous peoples of the “New World” are perceived and treated in any TWO of Thomas More’s Utopia, Bartolomé de Las Casas’s Brief Account of the
Destruction of the Indies, and Michel de Montaigne’s “Of Cannibals.” Focus your comparison on what you consider to be the most important common similarities or
differences in the two societies described in the texts you have chosen (e.g., political structures, economic practices, social dynamics; religious rites and beliefs; philosophical
systems; military involvements, etc.). What does the way of life described by the authors suggest about their respective views of the nature and society of these peoples? About
the human nature and human society in general? How do these perceptions and treatments of the indigenous peoples reflect these authors’ perceptions of their own
European contemporaries?

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