Moral and Political Dilemmas of Conquest
I. Spanish Justifications for Conquest
A. Initial Justifications and Critics
1. Pope Alexander VI
2. Law of Nations and Just War Doctrine
3. Regulating the Encomienda: Laws of BurgosB. The Great Debates: Las Casas and Sepulveda
II. Political Applications
A. Advise the King
B. Encomienda
1. New Laws (1542)
2. Rebellion of Gonzalo Pizarro (1544)
3. Gradually Phased outC. Extension of Royal Bureaucracy
D. Andean view of system: Guaman Poma’s World Turned Upside Down
Questions:
What were the conflicting opinions on the nature of the “Indians” and the rights of Spanish Sovereignty?
How did conflicts over the encomienda get resolved?
To what degree is Guaman Poma attempting to reform the Spanish colonial bureaucratic system from within, and to what degree is he envisioning a very different relationship between the Andes and the Spanish king?
I.D. Terms:
New Laws (1542)
Gonzalo Pizarro
Francisco
de Toledo
Council of Indies
Viceroy
Audiencia
Corregidor
Guaman Poma Images:
Map
of Tawantinsuyu
Inca
and the Four Lords (center position)
Guaman
Poma interviewing elders
Abuse
of Andean
Gender
complementarity in Inca Period (proper diagonal)
Guaman
Poma and King
The
Pope, the King and Guaman Poma
Abusive
Spanish Officials
Pious
Christian Andeans
Andeans
practicing Christian Charity
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