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A 10 page overview of the way the Spanish administered their colonial holdings in the so-called New World. The author details the subjugation and exploitation the Spanish attempted to exert on the indigenous inhabitants of
their new holdings. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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10 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPspainA.rtf
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The Americas were just one more frontier to Spain in the sixteenth century. Spain had a long history of conquest and exploitation and that history would essentially
repeat itself in the Americas. The precise way that Spain administered her new territories, however, varied according to a number of factors. In the Americas Spain encountered a
great diversity of peoples and lifeways and Spains administration varied with that variability as well as with the variability of its individual administrators.
An example of the diversity Spain encountered in the Americas can be found by looking at the relatively small area now known as Ecuador, that area which at
one time comprised a significant portion of the Incan Empire. Prior to the arrival of the Spanish, and in fact even today, this region was broken into three distinctive
geographic areas: the Costa, the Sierra, and the Oriente (Weil, 1991). The Costa and the Sierra regions were particularly distinguishable even before the arrival of the Spanish in
terms of their social and economic systems (Weil, 1991). They had lived essentially isolated from one another and had developed their own ways of dealing with their social organization
(Weil, 1991). Despite the relative uniform rule of the Inca Empire these areas, and other areas of Ecuador, maintained many of the old ethnic differences (Weil, 1991). Although
their subsistence patterns were basically the same, sedentary agriculturists who grew primarily potatoes and corn, they maintained distinctive languages and lifeways (Weil, 1991) .
The Native Americans of this region and, in fact, of the Americas as a whole were viewed by the Spanish as a source of cheap labor.
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