Read the excerpt from A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies. And this also is as really true. . . . the very Tyrants and cruel Murderers cannot deny without the stigma of a lye. . . . the Spaniards never received any injury from the Indians, but that they rather reverenced them as Persons descended from Heaven, until that they were compelled to take up Arms, provoked thereunto by repeated Injuries, violent Torments, and injust Butcheries.

–A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies,
Bartolomé de Las Casas, 1542

How does Las Casas describe the Spanish?

as tyrants and murderers
as fair and just
as wealthy and cruel
as weak and godlike