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[https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-history-of-latin-america/spanish-conquest-and-settlement-of-america/9F668638EDCBCC2D84C22777A200DDDB by CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY] | [https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-history-of-latin-america/spanish-conquest-and-settlement-of-america/9F668638EDCBCC2D84C22777A200DDDB by CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY] | ||
‘Without settlement there is no good conquest, and if the land is not conquered, the people will not be converted. Therefore the maxim of the conqueror must be to settle.’ The words are those of one of the first historians of the Indies, Francisco Lopez de Gomara. The philosophy behind them is that of his patron, the greatest of the conquistadores, Hernán Cortés. It was this philosophy which came to inform Spain's overseas enterprise of the sixteenth century and did much to make Spanish America what it eventually became. | ‘Without settlement there is no good conquest, and if the land is not conquered, the people will not be converted. Therefore the maxim of the conqueror must be to settle.’ The words are those of one of the first historians of the Indies, Francisco Lopez de Gomara. The philosophy behind them is that of his patron, the greatest of the conquistadores, Hernán Cortés. It was this philosophy which came to inform Spain's overseas enterprise of the sixteenth century and did much to make Spanish America what it eventually became. | ||
=====The Church in Colonial Latin America===== | |||
[https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780199766581/obo-9780199766581-0180.xml by John F. Schwaller 31/3/16 Oxford Bibliographic] | |||
The Catholic Church was undoubtedly the single most important institution in colonial Latin America. Everyone who lived in the region was nominally a member of the Church. The Church controlled all aspects of life from birth, through marriage, until death. | |||
