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- The geographical boundaries of New Spain varied greatly in the colonial period; here they are treated as more or less contiguous with the cultural area of Mesoamerica, stretching from northern Mexico down through Guatemala.
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Apr 12, 2024 · Viceroyalty of New Spain, the first of the four viceroyalties that Spain created to govern its conquered lands in the New World. Established in 1535, it initially included all land north of the Isthmus of Panama under Spanish control.
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New Spain, officially the Viceroyalty of New Spain ( Spanish: Virreinato de Nueva España [birejˈnato ðe ˈnweβa esˈpaɲa] ⓘ ), originally the Kingdom of New Spain, was an integral territorial entity of the Spanish Empire, established by Habsburg Spain during the Spanish conquest of the Americas and having its capital in Mexico City.
Dec 29, 2020 · The geographical boundaries of New Spain varied greatly in the colonial period; here they are treated as more or less contiguous with the cultural area of Mesoamerica, stretching from northern Mexico down through Guatemala.
Oxib-Keh †. Tecun Uman †. In a protracted conflict during the Spanish colonization of the Americas, Spanish colonisers gradually incorporated the territory that became the modern country of Guatemala into the colonial Viceroyalty of New Spain. Before the conquest, this territory contained a number of competing Mesoamerican kingdoms, the ...
- 1524–1697
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- Spanish victory
- The Viceroyalty of New Spain
- The Viceroyalty of Peru
- Evangelization in The Spanish Americas
- Strategies of Dominance in The Early Colonial Period
- Talking About Viceregal Art
Less than a decade after the Spanish conquistador (conqueror) Hernan Cortés and his men and Indigenous allies defeated the Mexica (Aztecs) at their capital city of Tenochtitlan in 1521, the first viceroyalty, New Spain, was officially created. Tenochtitlan was razed and then rebuilt as Mexico City, the capital of the viceroyalty. At its height, the...
The Viceroyalty of Peru was founded after Francisco Pizarro’s defeat of the Inka in 1534. Inspired by Cortés’s journey and conquest of Mexico, Pizarro had made his way south and inland, spurred on by the possibility of finding gold and other riches. Internal conflicts were destabilizing the Inka empire at the time, and these political rifts aided P...
Soon after the military and political conquests of the Mexica (Aztecs) and Inka, European missionaries began arriving in the Americas to begin the spiritual conquests of Indigenous peoples. In New Spain, the order of the Franciscans landed first (in 1523 and 1524), establishing centers for conversion and schools for Indigenous youths in the areas s...
Spanish churches were often built on top of Indigenous temples and shrines, sometimes re-using stones for the new structure. A well-known example is the Church of Santo Domingo in Cusco, built atop the Inka Qorikancha(or Golden Enclosure). You can still see walls of the Qorikancha below the church. This practice of building on previous structures a...
How do we talk about viceregal art more specifically? What terms do we use to describe this complex time period and geographic region? Scholars have used a variety of labels to describe the art and architecture of the Spanish viceroyalties, some of which are problematic because they position European art as being superior or better and viceregal ar...
Dec 6, 2023 · The Viceroyalty of New Spain. Less than a decade after the Spanish conquistador (conqueror) Hernan Cortés and his men and Indigenous allies defeated the Mexica (Aztecs) at their capital city of Tenochtitlan in 1521, the first viceroyalty, New Spain, was officially created. Tenochtitlan was razed and then rebuilt as Mexico City, the capital of ...
Aug 1, 1995 · This work, a “narrative of Spain’s colonial experience in Guatemala” (p. xiii), has a traditional plot: Spaniards act, natives react. In chapter 1, Amerindians appear (along with the “Land”) as part of the backdrop for the opening scene, “Contact, Conquest, and Colonization” (chapter 2).
