![]() ![]() In other words, Sepulveda and Las Casas regarded the Natives as either renegades or victims, when, in fact, the Post-Cortez period was defined by the fusion of the two cultures, rather than the strict imposition of one over the other, thus creating a unique culture in the New World that was a hybrid of both Spanish and Native customs. The Spanish recognized that the Aztec infrastructure was as sophisticated as anything the conquistadores could devise, so instead of following a European pattern in land division, they simply adapted the Aztec pattern and technology. ![]() By studying the land surveys, maps, and land distribution patterns of Pre-and-Post-Conquest Aztecs, it becomes apparent that the Spanish used the Aztec patterns of land organization on which to super-impose their governmental infrastructure. In the debate, neither man portrayed indigenous groups like the Aztecs as “actors”, but rather as the “conquered.” However, using Spanish survey sources, modern historians can offer a more accurate third alternative view of cultural fusion in Mexico. One man, Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, justified what came to be known as the Black Legend of the Spanish in his work Democrates Alter, while the other, a Catholic priest named Bartolomé de las Casas, argued in favor of the Natives in the Americas in his work In Defense of the Indians. He was a Dominican friar who criticized the conquest and exploitation of the Indians of the Spanish. A prolific writer and in his later years an. His several works include Historia de las Indias (first printed in 1875). Spains Black Legend Many Catholic countries have been charged with. The Dominican priest Bartolom de las Casas (1485-1566) was a prominent chronicler of the early Spanish conquest of the Americas, a noted protector of the. Mentor: Michaela Reaves, Professor of History, California Lutheran Universityįor many historians, the Valladolid Debates of 15 highlighted the main issues of the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs. Spanish missionary priest, the Apostle of the Indies. Bartolom de Las Casas, (born 1474 or 1484, Sevilla, Spaindied July 1566, Madrid), early Spanish historian and Dominican missionary who was the first to expose the oppression of indigenous peoples by Europeans in the Americas and to call for the abolition of slavery there. Conquest: Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Bartolomé de las Casas, and the Native Question Author: Julio Diaz
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