The Conquest of the Incas
Ramfis tenía tanta hambre de poder, tantas ganas de ser el amo de ese paisito ingrato con su padre y su familia, que Abbes García se entregó a fondo durante unos meses a trabajar en una conspiración que esta vez, con el hijo del Jefe implicado, parecía seria. Pero también se vino abajo antes de tomar cuerpo, pues los militares comprometidos se echa
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Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
A testament to the idealism and the talents of the Jesuits of Latin America were the ‘Reductions’ (reducciones) they established in Paraguay, Argentina and southern Brazil: these were autonomous Indian communities, with townships, schools, churches, libraries, public arts and native industries; from 1609 to 1768, many of these Reductions together c
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The forward move on to the American continent was the work not of princes or capitalists at home in Europe, but of gold-hungry frontiersmen spurred on by the rapid exhaustion of the islands’ deposits. Without the short-lived gold rush on the Caribbean islands and the nearby Tierra Firme, the impetus towards the territorial conquest of the mainland
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