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110. See L. Hanke, ARISTOTLE AND THE AMERICAN INDIANS 8 (1959) ("final 
conquest of Granada was the climax of a long national effort to establish Christian 
hegemony in Spain"). One interesting, although perhaps apocryphal story, provides 
an insight into the tenor of the times in Spain at the dawn of the discovery era. In 
1492, the scholar Antonio de Nebrija presented Queen Isabella with his Spanish 
Gramatica. Upon presentation, Isabella reportedly asked the scholar who had composed the first-ever grammar of any modern European language, "What is it
for?" Nebrija answered presciently: "Language is the perfect instrument of empire."
J. TREND, THE CIVILIZATION OF SPAIN 88 (1944).
-The Medieval And Renaissance Origins of the Status of the American Indian In Western Legal Thought by Robert A. Williams Southern California Law Review
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