SOCIOL 159 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Bartolomé De Las Casas, Juan Ginés De Sepúlveda, Aztec Religion
17 Apr 2016
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Anthro 139 / history 169 / is 179 / sociol 159 winter 2016. Midterm study guide: the year 1492 marked the great encounter between the peoples of the new world and those of europe. This meeting was not just material, but cosmological in scope, altering worldviews on both sides. How did the structure of pre-columbian religions prepare indigenous groups. Some would say that aztec were prepared for their encounter with the. Spanish because they had by prophesized pretending that a bearded, white skinned god would returned to mexico in the month of one. Cort s did arrive on the shores of mexico in the month of one. The reality was that the indigenous people have a long history of being conquered. So when the spanish came, it was just another conquest, which meant that they now had to incorporate their religion into their own. Since la reconquista, the spanish had one common mission to extend.
