GEOG 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Real Audiencia, Encomienda, Labour Power
Document Summary
Consider how the spanish sought to extract american resources and establish authority in the sixteenth century. Consider the tacics and consequences of spanish imperialism on the land. The imperial problem: how to organize power, convert the populaion and extract revenue: a key challenge to spanish imperials, convert a non-chrisian populaion to a chrisian populaion, had to beneit spanish conquistadors. A new centralized poliical system: system of government, law, disinct feature of spanish government, audiencias(legislaive, judicial and execuive funcions) Resetlement and rights of control: congregaciones(chrisian missions, chrisian monks feared that they cannot cater to their people, missionaries were involved in soring people and creaing villages, encomiendas (tribute and indigenous labour power) Assigned to individuals (involved in the conquest process?) The relaciones geograpicas: spanish crown survey(staring in 1577) Long document sent to administeraion units asking oicers of the local area to document: In new spain, it bore the reputaion of a barren land with an impoverished indigenous populaion.
