How Did The Spanish Crowns Form Intermarry In Central Mexico
Spanish Crowns FORCE Intermarry in Central Mexico (1500-1600)
The Spanish crowns encouragement for colonists in central Mexico to intermarry with Indians in the early 1500’s created an intersectional experience for the first mestizo generation. This experience was created through a strategic process of plotting, rationalizing, and execution by the hands of the government, church and military. Post conquest, the government (Spanish Crowns) placed together a plan that manipulated race into setting up a hierarchical order that could either prohibit you or enable you economic and social privileges.
The Spanish believed that political continuity was very important in the early stages establishing hierarchical order so developing a …show more content…
It was noted that, “The encomienda system was clearly an abuse of the Indians’ property rights, but was rationalized under the pretense that it was the most effective method of acculturating them”. (Menchaca 51) Gines de Sepulveda a influential spokesman in Spain deemed Indians, “were savages without souls” (Menchaca 51) which he believed made them fit to be enslaved. This reasoned acculturating method was just a legal way to enslave the natives and take their property. Though wrong the Church and the Crown still agreed that the natives needed to be governed and protected. To find a more subtle approach the Spanish used intermarriage to control the masses. It began a legal form of acculturating by regulating colonists to intermarry with Indians. This was to show positive progression to the Indians but also maintain their dominance and form some stability. In what started as encouragement, the Church and the Crown offered officers more land to show support of intermarriage but, “the crown increased its pressure on Spanish men to marry Indian women by penalizing those who had concubines and refused to wed”. (Menchaca 54) this was done to help stabilize and keep the hierarchical order intact. This encouragement also made for more to mestizos being born out of wed lock and an increased number in orphan children affecting the economic
The Spanish crowns encouragement for colonists in central Mexico to intermarry with Indians in the early 1500’s created an intersectional experience for the first mestizo generation. This experience was created through a strategic process of plotting, rationalizing, and execution by the hands of the government, church and military. Post conquest, the government (Spanish Crowns) placed together a plan that manipulated race into setting up a hierarchical order that could either prohibit you or enable you economic and social privileges.
The Spanish believed that political continuity was very important in the early stages establishing hierarchical order so developing a …show more content…
It was noted that, “The encomienda system was clearly an abuse of the Indians’ property rights, but was rationalized under the pretense that it was the most effective method of acculturating them”. (Menchaca 51) Gines de Sepulveda a influential spokesman in Spain deemed Indians, “were savages without souls” (Menchaca 51) which he believed made them fit to be enslaved. This reasoned acculturating method was just a legal way to enslave the natives and take their property. Though wrong the Church and the Crown still agreed that the natives needed to be governed and protected. To find a more subtle approach the Spanish used intermarriage to control the masses. It began a legal form of acculturating by regulating colonists to intermarry with Indians. This was to show positive progression to the Indians but also maintain their dominance and form some stability. In what started as encouragement, the Church and the Crown offered officers more land to show support of intermarriage but, “the crown increased its pressure on Spanish men to marry Indian women by penalizing those who had concubines and refused to wed”. (Menchaca 54) this was done to help stabilize and keep the hierarchical order intact. This encouragement also made for more to mestizos being born out of wed lock and an increased number in orphan children affecting the economic