True or false bartholomew de Las Casas argued that the Spanish were justified in their treatment of Native Americans because they
were pagans

True

Explanation:

While the Pope had granted Spain sovereignty over the New World, de Las Casas argued that the property rights and rights to their own labor still belonged to the native peoples. Natives were subjects of the Spanish crown, and to treat them as less than human violated the laws of God, nature, and Spain.

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they remained in rural areas and worked at jobs such as lumbering or farming.

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