Indian Peoples And The Challenge Of Spanish Conquest Summary

The main ideas of chapter one was the conquest and exploration of the early America’s by the spaniards. Throughout the chapter, it explains the difficulties that the spanish explorers faced when attempting to conquer new lands. The primary problem the explorers faced was with the current inhabitants of the lands they wanted to conquer, especially with the cultural differences between populations. On article that exemplifies the cultural differences between the Native Americans and the Spanish Explorers is the third-person biographical narrative called “The Collision of Cultures.” The narrative gives the reader insight on what the indians and the explorers pre-judgement of one another, based off of what the parties believed with their religion and moral. This article’s reader would be

Convinced of the superiority of Catholicism to all other religions, Spain insisted that the primary goal of colonization was to save the Indians from heathenism and prevent them from falling under the sway of Protestantism. The aim was neither to exterminate nor to remove the Indians, but to transform them into obedient Christian subjects of the crown. To the Spanish colonizers, the large native populations of the Americas were not only souls to be saved but also a labor force to be organized to extract gold and silver that would enrich their mother country. Las Casas’ writings and the abuses they exposed contributed to the spread of the Black Legend-the image of Spain as a uniquely brutal and exploitative colonizer. This would provide of a potent justification for other European powers to challenge Spain’s predominance in the New World.

From Reséndez’s foundation of European enslavement and its far-reaching impact on Native American populations, Reséndez examined racial components in the southwest. It is impossible to separate racial tension from the study of Indian slavery. Christopher Columbus’s journals as contemporary letters show the Spanish perception of

One of the weaknesses of this book was the way in which a strong opinion of the author frequently came to the surface. The impression given when reading was one of bias in that the Spanish were wrong to come in and refine everything. This was reflected in the fact that periodically within the book, when the Spanish conquistadors did something to the Indians, it was pointed out how inhumane it was. Yet, when the Indians retaliated in some way, it was quickly pointed out how justified they were. The mentioned advantages that the Indians gained through the Spaniards were infrequent and underdeveloped.

There have been many instances throughout history in which indigenous people have unwillingly suffered the consequences of foreigners’ interaction with their culture. In the case of the Huaorani two foreign groups, the oil companies and the missionaries, invaded their land and gravely affected the life they led in the Ecuadorian amazon. In the book Savages Joe Kane gives a firsthand account at how the Huaorani fight to preserve their land and traditional way of life.

Document B is a letter, it was written in 1493. It is about Christopher who wrote a letter to them so that he can inform them about his voyage and all the other important events that happened. This source was created in March 15, 1493. During this time this source was created, people were exploring new land. This source reflects the time period because it was around the time he discovered America. Document C is an account, it was written in 1542. It is about how “depict examples of unfair treatment that indigenous people endured in the early stages of the Spanish conquest” .This source was created in 1552 during the time this source was created, Christopher was trying to find new land. This source reflects the time period because columbus was

The conquering of one culture by another was a large reason blending could impact these societies. One example of this was in the 1500s, when Spanish conquistadors such as Pizarro killed and conquered the Incan Empire. Afterwards, the Spaniards settled in the area, and their cultures and societies changed and merged. An example of this change is that a new social order appeared, with peninsulares, or Spaniards born in Spain, at the top, and Native Americans as well as slaves at the bottom of the social order. Also, this blending created a larger mestizo population, which resulted in more Native American-Spanish people, leading to the merging of Native American and Spanish traditions. Another effect of this was the establishment of the encomienda

Spain has been using labor exploitation against the Indians for many years. By being deprived from their own personal freedom they are being forced into manual labor by the Spanish in developing for them, their agriculture and settlements plus, using them in protection of the other colonies and to pay taxes to the Spanish government. Not only that, but the Spanish bought Christianity to the Indians believing that they had the right and by using that exchange they never failed to use it against their will to justify everything that they did in the new world, but there was an eventual conversion that caused them to convert to Catholicism. it made it easier for the Spanish to conquer the Indians since they had bought many diseases from the new

Prior to reading Bianca Premo’s book, Children of the Father King: Youth, Authority, and Legal Minority in Colonial Lima, I had not had much experience with the book’s subject matter: colonial Peru. The closest thing to the subject that I have personally studied is the presence of pre-colonial Latin American empires. Between the Maya, Inca, and Aztec empires, the Inca held the most influence and control over Peru. Yet, I do not remember studying the complex social and legal structures that apparently existed in the colonial Peruvian society during this. Another reason why I was unfamiliar with the subject that the author wrote about is due to the group of people that the author analyzes.

At Joara, near Morganton, North Carolina, Native Americans of the Mississippian culture interacted with Spanish colonizers of the Juan Pardo expedition, who built a base there in 1567 called Fort San Juan. Expedition documentation and archaeological evidence of the fort and Native American culture both exist. The soldiers were at the fort about 18 months (1567–1568) before the natives killed them and destroyed the fort. (They killed soldiers stationed at five other forts as well; only one man of 120 survived.) Sixteenth-century Spanish artifacts have been recovered from the site, marking the first European colonization in the interior of what became the United States.[18]

1) How did archeology and/or literature related to pre-Conquest native civilizations shape the ways Latin American elites view Indians in the 19th and early 20th centuries? Archeological remains, eyewitness accounts, and indigenous-inspired literature are what remains of a rich Pre-Columbian past. Despite relative interest in Pre-Columbian empires, latent sentimentality towards preserving past cultures reflects how Latin American elites viewed Indians during the 19th and 20th centuries. To understand why the elites shared these views, it is important to consider preceding events on the Iberian peninsula.

The Spanish Conquest is the name given to the event of the Spanish conquering the Americas. Christopher Columbus, son of two Italian weavers, discovered the Americas after he sought for a faster trading to Asia. He went back to the King and Queen, requesting people to colonise this ‘New World’.

Culture is the aquired knowledge that people use to interpret, experience, and generate social behavior.

The central Andean zone of South America has one of the richest environments for important ancient civilizations in the world. Many cultures were developing appearing and disappearing until the culture developed to one of the most important civilizations of all time. At around 1200 B.C. the first cultures began to develop in the area along the north coast of Peru. During this time it became possible to see indications of small nuclei villages which were later known as Andean towns. As the years went by they became religious Centre that continued to transform into populous city Centre with markets, religious political and religious organs. There economy focused on the development and control of large territorial

The discovery and eventually conquest of Latin America and the Caribbean Islands is perhaps one of the single most important encounter of two cultures. In 1492, when the conquistadores first set foot on the New World, not only did they discovered territories previously unknown to them; but also great civilizations who inhabited the lands. As Marshall Eakin describes in his book The History of Latin America, the civilizations of the Americas were “monarchies led by powerful leaders… they were built in complex social and cultural systems” (Eakin, 65). Nevertheless despite the Native American’s great achievements, these civilizations possessed a great amount of disadvantages compared to their Spanish conquerors. Such disadvantages played a decisive role in the conquest of the New World by the Spaniards. The conquistadores’ main decisive factor in the conquest of the New World was the transferal of old world diseases into the new world, followed by their superior weapons, the Indigenous rivalries, native superstitions, and the aid of black slaves.