The Legacy of Mesoamerica History and Culture of a Native American Civilization, 2nd Edition

CHAPTER 5 THE COLONIAL PERIOD IN MESOAMERICA Despite the trauma of the conquest and the demographic collapse that occurred over ...

CHAPTER 5 THE COLONIAL PERIOD IN MESOAMERICA 183 Crown strategies for controlling and profiting from its empire were based on ma ...

184 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA The New Laws prohibited slavery of Indians, regulated the tribute that could be paid by Indians ...

CHAPTER 5 THE COLONIAL PERIOD IN MESOAMERICA 185 Figure 5.1 The main Spanish colonial jurisdictions established in Mesoamerica d ...

186 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA religious orders lived primarily among the Indians, learning the native languages and ministerin ...

CHAPTER 5 THE COLONIAL PERIOD IN MESOAMERICA 187 comiendasin Central Mexico. He may have been the first to express this sentimen ...

188 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA prices the cotton or wool needed to produce the textiles. Another variation of this form of repa ...

CHAPTER 5 THE COLONIAL PERIOD IN MESOAMERICA 189 verse with livestock and agricultural components. In many regions, the growth o ...

190 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA Figure 5.2 Indian textile workers in an obraje.This illustration by a native artist is from the ...

CHAPTER 5 THE COLONIAL PERIOD IN MESOAMERICA 191 Figure 5.3 Indo-Christian art: A native artist painted this portrait of fray Ma ...

192 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA Opposed to this majority opinion was the more radical position taken by Bar- tolomé de Las Casas ...

CHAPTER 5 THE COLONIAL PERIOD IN MESOAMERICA 193 Figure 5.4 Colonial church in the town of San Pedro y San Pablo Teposcolula, Oa ...

194 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA Figure 5.5 The first page of a 1565 confession manual printed in both Spanish and Nahuatl. The w ...

CHAPTER 5 THE COLONIAL PERIOD IN MESOAMERICA 195 process. Over time, new prayers, new images, new songs, new penances, and new f ...

196 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA willing to support and cooperate with local rulers who showed themselves to be devo- tees of Chr ...

CHAPTER 5 THE COLONIAL PERIOD IN MESOAMERICA 197 Box 5.1 The Virgin of Guadalupe The popular story associated with this cult ass ...

198 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA to collective experiences generated by elaborate ritual, rather than to private prayer and conte ...

tolerant of anyone who was not Catholic, and from this intolerance the doctrine of limpieza de sangre(purity of blood) was born. ...

200 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA Figure 5.7 These paintings are from a series illustrating different castas,or social and ethnic ...

CHAPTER 5 THE COLONIAL PERIOD IN MESOAMERICA 201 (particularly when the woman came from a noble Indian family). But from the be- ...