"I want the natives to develop a friendly attitude toward us because I know that they are a people who can be made free and converted to our Holy Faith more by love than by force. I therefore gave red caps to some and glass beads to others. They
hung the beads around their necks, along with some other things of slight value that I gave them... I warned my men to take
nothing from the people without giving them something in exchange."
-Christopher Columbus. Log, October 12, 1492
Briefly explain what powerful group in Spain, other than the monarchy, Columbus would be appealing to in the above
passage.