What economic reason did Las Casas give for the Spanish destruction of more than forty million people?

First contact experiences on Hispaniola included brutal interactions between the Spanish and the Native Americans. Conquistadors subjugated populations primarily to garner personal economic wealth, and Natives little understood the nature of the conquest.

Explanation:

As early as 1522 Bartolome de Las Casas worked to denounce these activities on political, economic, moral, and religious grounds by chronicling the actions of the conquistadors for the Spanish court.

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who were inferior and deserved to be nothing but workers and servers because the bible at that time did not say anything about black men being normal or equal.

the minoans were group of people living in the greek islands of crete in the mediterranean sea during the bronze age