Spanish Conquistadors Leaving Mexico

Three years after Hernan Cortés captured the Mexican capital of Tenochtitlan in 1521, the Spanish continued to deceive the Indians into giving them goods and taking over their land. They decided that a good way of doing that would be to convince the native people that they were worshipping the wrong God and they should learn about the right God so they can convert to Catholicism To work this plan, Spanish minister general Francisco de los Angeles ordered twelve friars, now known as the “apostolic twelve” to go to New Spain. These friars had a strong desire to make the Indians learn about God and to eventually convert them to Catholicism. Before they could converse with the common natives about it, they had to face the lords and holy men of Tenochtitlan. Though the Spanish gave
They felt that the acceptance of Christianity did not strike them as an all-or-nothing proposition. So really, it seemed as if everything the Indians said went in one ear and out the other because instead of leaving the Indians alone and letting them continue to follow their own norms, the Spanish still wanted to try at any cost to get what they wanted. As the Spanish conquistadors continued to take over Mexico, they rebelled by persecuting the Indians so they could force them to convert to Spanish religion. Reports were made and sent back to Spain about how they treated the Indians. One report, made by Felipe Guaman Poma during the mid 1500s to about 1615, shows many drawings depicting their treatment. There is one picture of a holy Spanish man who was trying to perform a form of conversion ceremony on an Indian woman, tired of suspicion and persecution and fearful of rejection. Around her head, he writes, “confess me, Father, of all my sins. Don’t ask me about huacas and idols, and, for the love of Jesus Christ and His Holy Mother Mary, absolve me [of my sins] and don’t throw me out the door. Have mercy on my