HIS 315K Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Spanish Requirement Of 1513, Atlantic Creole, Pedro Álvares Cabral
Document Summary
The requerimiento was a document that was read to the indigenous peoples of the lands that the iberians traveled to. It has a brief background of their religious history and was used as a way to convince the indigenous people to conform to catholicism. If they did not agree to follow the iberian ways, the requerimiento was a document that the iberians used to dominate the new land and its inhabitants. It was written by juan l pez de palacios rubios in 1513 and translated to english by. When the indigenous peoples first heard the document, they would not have understood the. Most likely, they would have been terrified of new people coming into their land with a new language, clothing, and customs. Depending on the people, they may have tried to combat the iberians which would have been interpreted as an excuse for them to be dominated and forced into catholicism.
