The Impacts of Spanish Exploration

A. The Establishment of New Spain in the Americas

Founding of St. Augustine in 1565: America’s Oldest City Spanish Conquistador Pedro Menendez Aviles

Growth through the Encomienda System

Encomedia System What was the System?? The Spanish Conquistadors and other Spanish citizens were given control of a parcel of land and the Natives that lived on the land by the King and Queen of Spain – Towns / Settlements WHAT DOES THAT MEAN???? Conquistadors controlled Indian populations Required Indians to pay tribute from their lands Indians were essentially enslaved to the land owner In return the conquistador was obligated to Protect his wards Instruct them in the Christian faith WHAT WAS THE IMPACT???? The system helped the Spanish create “New Spain” a system of organized towns and settlements throughout Mexico and South America

B. Relations with the Native Peoples

Relations with Native Peoples During the Exploration Period CONQUER

The Storybook View

The Reality

Spanish Conquistadors Claiming the Land And Issuing the Requiremento to the Natives

we shall take you, and your wives, and your children, and shall make slaves of them, and as such shall sell and dispose of them as their highnesses may command; and we shall take away your goods, and shall do you all the mischief and damage that we can, as to vassals who do not obey, and refuse to receive their lord, and resist and contradict him: and we protest that the deaths and losses which shall accrue from this are your fault, and not that of their highnesses, or ours, nor of these cavaliers who come with us.” The Requirement of 1513 ….Wherefore, as best we can, we ask and require you that you consider what we have said to you, and you take the time that shall be necessary to understand and deliberate upon it, and that you acknowledge the Church as the ruler and superior of the whole world, But if you do not do this, and maliciously make delay in it, I certify to you that, with the help of God, we shall powerfully enter into your country, and shall make war against you in all ways and manners that we can, and shall subject you to the yoke and obedience of the Church and of their highnesses;

Enforcing the Requiremento: Atrocities Against the Natives We shall make war against you in all ways and manners that we can… We shall take away your goods, and shall do you all the mischief and damage that we can…

Relations with Native Peoples During the Encomendia Period EXPLOIT, ENSLAVE, EXTERMINATE

The Impact of 100 Years of Spanish Exploration on Native Population in Mexico:

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