Lies My Teacher Told Me Foreshadowing Analysis

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Once set off in the expectation of creating a quicker route to India by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, Christopher had reached a land that was thought to be the lands of India. Once arriving to the shores, he and his crew kept journals of their thoughts and observations about the new lands. Books containing collections of journal entries and other additions, such as Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen, really reveal the frightening foreshadowing of the explorer’s plans. “He ended his description of them with these menacing words: "I could conquer the whole of them with fifty men and govern them as I pleased." (Loewen 1). The main factor that allowed the Spanish to just arrive and seize control was the technological advancement