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The Conquest and Colonization of Indigenous Peoples

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Page 1: Colonization of indigenous peoples

The Conquest and Colonization of Indigenous

Peoples

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Cristóbal Colón“Portrait of a Man said to be Columbus” (1519) by Sebastiano del Piombo

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Columbus Travels

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Letter to Luis de Santángel (1493)

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“First Images of America: Castles in Hispaniola”

Woodcut from Columbus letter of 1493

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Columbus at Hispaniola (1493)

Woodcut (Basel, Switzerland)

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The Indigenous peoples:

The benefits of Colonization

“no tienen hierro ni acero ni armas . . . son muy temorosos a maravilla”

“se harán cristianos, que se inclinan al amor y al servicio de Sus Altezas…”

“nos dar de las cosas que [t]ienen en abundancia”

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The benefits of Colonization

“es el lugar más convenible y mejor comarca para las minas de oro”

“tornándose tantos pueblos a nuestra santa fe”

“todos los critstianos tendrán aquí refrigerio y ganacia”

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“The Return of Christopher Columbus” (1839) by Eugene Delacroix

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Portrait of Hernán Cortés (17th century) Museo Nacional del Virreinato (Mexico)

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Economic organization

Indian labor:-Decline in population-Royal Laws to protect the Indigenous peoples (1530, 1534, 1542)

Black labor: from 1518

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The Casta System

1. Peninsulares

2. Creoles

3. Mestizos

4. Mulattoes and Free Black Peoples

5. Indigenous Peoples

6. Black Slaves

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Castas painting, Mexico, 18th century,unknown author,Museo Nacional del Virreinato

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“Allegory of Spanish and Indigenous Authorities” (1809) in Mexico.by Patricio Suarez de Peredo