Colonial Latin America
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The Conquest and
Exploitation of the Americas
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Inca Creation Myth,
written c 1556 [At Internet Archive, from CCNY]
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The Popul-Vuh [At Sacred Texts]
The Mayan Creation myth.
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WEB Spanish
Conquest of Native America [At floridahistory]
- Aztec Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, 1519 [At this Site]
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2ND William Hickling Prescott: The History of the Conquest of Mexico,
1843 [At Virginia]
- Hernan Cortés: Second Letter to Charles V, 1520 [At this
Site]
A description of his conquest and its riches.
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Moctezuma's
Greeting to Hernan Cortes [At Internet Archive, from CCNY]
- Pedro de Cieza de Léon: Chronicles of the Incas,
1540 [At this Site]
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Bartolomeo De La Casas: A Short Account of the
Destruction of the Indies, 1542, excerpts [At Internet Archive, from Clinch Valley College]
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Phillip II of Spain (1527-1598): Two Letters on
the Gold of the Indies, 1559 [At Then Again]
- Francisco Lopez de Mendoza Grajales: The Founding of St.
Augustine, 1565 [At this Site]
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The Creation of Latin
American Cultures
- Biographic Sources On Spaniards In The New World,
16th-17th Centuries [At this Site]
- The New Laws of the Indies, 1542 [At this Site]
Spain's pro-Indian laws.
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Álvar Núñe-beza de Vaca: Adventures
in the Unknown Interior of America, 1542, translated and annotated by Cyclone Covey
(1963, copyright not renewed), full text [At ibiblio]
"The semi-official report to the king of Spain by the ranking surviving officer of a
royal expedition to conquer Florida which fantastically miscarried."
- Lope de Aguirre: Letter from to King Philip of Spain,
1561 [At this Site]
- Hubert Howe Bancroft: Burial of an Archbishop-Viceroy in
Mexico City, 1612 [At this Site]
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695): Poems [At Sappho]
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Antonio Valerian: Nican Mopohua,
(or Huei Tlamahuitzoltica) [At Sancta.org].
The story of Our Lady of Guadaloupe, who is said to have appeared in 1531. Written in
Nahuatl, the Aztec language, around the middle of the sixteenth century. This copy
published in Nahuatl by Luis Lasso de la Vega in 1649.
- Henry C Lea (1829-1909): The Inquisition in 17th-Century
Peru: Cases of Portuguese Judaizers [At this Site]
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Jorge Juan and Antonio de Ulloa: Colonial Lima, from A
Voyage to South America, 1748 [At Historical Text Archive]
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