Theories of Latin America
This theory portrays the Spanish as overtly cruel
What is the Black Legend?
They unified Spain
Who are Ferdinand and Isabelle?
He led the Spanish Forces
Hernan Cortez
This explains Double Mistaken Identity
“Each side of the cultural exchange presumes that a given form or concept is functioning in the way familiar within its own tradition and is unaware of or unimpressed by the other side’s interpretation.”
These were our everyday priests
What are the secular clergy?
This is the opposite of the Black Legend
What is the White Legend
This term describes cultural mixing born out of the Reconquista
What is mestizaje?
She was the principal interpretor
Who is Malatzin?
In the Central Mexican Valley, the encomienda was replaced by this
What is the repartimiento
This is the reason the Franciscans were in Mexico and the Dominicans in the Andes
What is, who ever gets there first gets to control the region?
This theory underscores the importance of local histories
What is social History?
Identity existed at this level in Iberia
What is the local level?
This pattern of conquest explains the Adelantado
What is appeal to the higher authority?
IN the Andes the encomienda was replaced by this
What is the mita?
The number of archbishops in Spanish America
What is 2?
This theory suggests that advancement of Latin America rests on its ability to be more like the Global North
What is modernization theory?
Ferdinand and Isabelle used this ideal to unify Iberia
What is Roman Catholicism and the use of a common enemy?
The Spanish read this to assert their supposed legal authority
What is the requerimiento?
This describes Spanish governance and was the phrase people used to overcome the demands of the the king and others
What is overlapping, "I obey but do not comply?"
This is the reason indigenous communities were not considered witches or tried under the inquisition
What are they were new converts with little knowledge of Christianity?
This theory highlights that Latin America has not advanced because it is dependent on the Global North
What is Dependency Theory?
Limpieza de Sangre means this and provided Iberia with a template for this
Blood purity and racial hierarchy they brought to the Americas
Conquest was aided principally by these two factors
What are disease and indigenous allies?
This order used the phrase "Are these not also men" for this purpose
These were the motives of extirpation trials
A) What are political motives of local rulers
B) What are political/economic motives of the Jesuits