a minimum of 200 words per question, MS Word format with a 12-point font, Arial or Times New Roman. 1. Both Christopher Columbus and Captain John Smith saw many of the same things in the “New World” and thus recorded similar impressions. Compare the passages in Columbus’s writings with the passages in Smith’s reports of Virginia and New England, in which they describe the land, the nature, and the promises of crops and riches. 2. The explorers and conquerors of the New World, in large measure, based their justifications for conquest on the cultural superiority of the conquerors, the physical and mental inferiority of the conquered, the backwardness of the Americans’ culture and technical development, the obligation and ability of the intruders to make better use of the land and its resources, and the duty to bring Christianity to the heathens. Columbus does not use all of these justifications, nor does he speak of them as savages; instead he speaks differently of the “Indians”. What justifications does he use? 3. Thomas Morton had made a name for himself as a result of his writings against the Pilgrims and Puritans. He demeaned and ridiculed them in his literary works. Describe two ways in which Morton attacked or condemned the Pilgrims and Puritans through his written works, and remember to cite the page content of Morton’s allusions or written literary attacks.