Mestizaje: Spanish Conquest and The Creation of Mexico

Mestizaje: Spanish Conquest and The Creation of Mexico

I. Spanish Drive for Conquest

II. Coup d’tat: New Spanish Empire

III. Settlement of New Mexico

Coatlicue: Earth Godess

Lady of the Serpent SkirtMother of light and dark

Acculturation/ Assimilation:Mexican Virgin

La Malinche/ Doña Marina

I. Spanish Drive for Conquest

A. European Trade Competition

B. La Reconquista

C. Religious Fanaticism: El Requerimiento

II. Coup d’tat: The New Spanish EmpireA. Mexica Empire

Aztec Empire, 1519The feathered Serpent:Quetzalcóatl

B. New Spain’s Economic Regions

III. Settlement of New Mexico

A) Building on Ancient Trade Routes

B) Sedentary Vs. Nomadic People

C) Language: Group Identity/ Group Division

Pueblo Bonito (Present Day Arizona—Artist Rendition)

Pueblo Language Groups (Below Right)

Hopi: Snake Dance Priest and Apprentice

(Photos by Edward Curtis circa 1900)

Hopi Snake Dance (photo by Edward Curtis, circa 1900)

D. Assimilation Mechanisms

• Divide and Conquer

• Church: Forced Conversion (Civilizing Gente sin Razon)