Along with this, Cortés and Pizarro also possessed native allies. ... Differing very much between both conquests was the first encounter between the Spaniards and the natives. ... Later Almagro's son and supported storm Pizarro's palace and assassinate him. ... Since their first encounters with the natives, the natives saw them as returning gods and were in amazement. ... However or the Portuguese they colonized noticeably slower than the Spanish. they also had more peaceful encounters with the native, whereas the native were surprisingly trusting of the Conquistadores. ...

• Word Count: 1949
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

With the generous amount of land available to be farmed but no native slave labor to work it, the Spanish settlers farmed their land themselves. ... Ferrer was greatly popular, creating a political legacy that lives on in his son, who leads the country today. ... With the lack of native labor, colonist practiced subsistence avoiding the exploitation of natives. This allowed for ambivalent relations between the natives and the colonist and a classless society. ...

• Word Count: 1563
• Approx Pages: 6
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Of all these reasons the most cited is that Garcilaso himself was a mestizo, the son of a Spanish magistrate in Peru and an Incan Princess. ... He mentions how the first Inca and pallu (royal females) reached Cusco and brought together a great congregation of native (barbarian) Indians and how they taught the Indians agriculture, masonry and architecture, textile manufature and communial living and acceptable practices. ... He justifies the colonization and ˜civilization' of the Indians based on an extension of the Artistolean doctrine that some men were slaves by nature to includ...

• Word Count: 1941
• Approx Pages: 8
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Latin America consists of the entire western hemisphere, south of the United States encompassing all the countries between Mexico and Argentina. Until 1807, these were all colonies governed by Spain, Portugal and France. The major liberators of Latin America were Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin...

• Word Count: 1969
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School