Mayan And Spanish Encounters
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The spiritual conquest, or the Spanish goal to conquer and convert the Amerindians to Christianity during the colonial period is a rather difficult area to examine from an objective point of view. A wealth of sources exists but yet they are all from the Spanish perspective. Unfortunately the Maya ....
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.... of Amerindian rights. His anti-imperialistic and anti-racism attitude is prevalent throughout his work. His central argument calls down upon the brutality inflicted by the conquest, questioning their use of force on such good-natured people. He states that "God has created all these numberless people to be quite the simplest, without malice or duplicity, most obedient, most faithful to their natural Lords, and to the Christians…" (Lunenfeld, 206). He petitioned to both the Council ....
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