Colonial Mexico The Viceroyalty of New Spain. Consolidating New Spain The Spanish Claims on America Treaty of Tordesillas, 1494 Casa de Contratación.

Colonial MexicoColonial Mexico

The Viceroyalty of New SpainThe Viceroyalty of New Spain

Consolidating New SpainConsolidating New Spain

The Spanish Claims on AmericaThe Spanish Claims on America Treaty of Tordesillas, 1494Treaty of Tordesillas, 1494

Casa de ContrataciCasa de Contratación (1503, Seville)ón (1503, Seville) Council of the Indies (1524)Council of the Indies (1524) Settling New SpainSettling New Spain

Extending the Conquest: Nuño de Guzmán, Extending the Conquest: Nuño de Guzmán, Francisco Coronado, Juan de OñateFrancisco Coronado, Juan de Oñate

The Legacy of CortesThe Legacy of Cortes The Threat of Foreign CompetitionThe Threat of Foreign Competition

Administering an EmpireAdministering an Empire

The Viceroyalty of New SpainThe Viceroyalty of New Spain The “Republic of Spaniards”The “Republic of Spaniards”

The ViceroyThe Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza, Luis de Velasco (the elder)Antonio de Mendoza, Luis de Velasco (the elder)

The AudienciaThe Audiencia OidoresOidores

The Visitador: Royal OversightThe Visitador: Royal Oversight Corregidores, Alcaldes Mayores, or Corregidores, Alcaldes Mayores, or

GobernadoresGobernadores

The Local ContextThe Local Context

The Cabildo [Ayuntamiento]The Cabildo [Ayuntamiento] Town CouncilsTown Councils Tensions between Local and Royal AgendasTensions between Local and Royal Agendas The Growth of Local AristocraciesThe Growth of Local Aristocracies

Peninsulares and Criollos: The Peninsulares and Criollos: The Distinction EmergesDistinction Emerges

The “Republic of the The “Republic of the Indians”Indians”

Corregidores de IndiosCorregidores de Indios The Role of the CaciqueThe Role of the Cacique Indian DepopulationIndian Depopulation The “Indian Question”The “Indian Question”

The Encomienda The Encomienda The Power of EncomenderosThe Power of Encomenderos

The New Laws of the Indies (1542)The New Laws of the Indies (1542) BartolomBartoloméé de Las Casas and Juan Gin de Las Casas and Juan Ginés de és de

Sepúlveda (the 1550 debate)Sepúlveda (the 1550 debate) The RepartimientoThe Repartimiento

The Spanish Imperial The Spanish Imperial SystemSystem

The Imperial MonopolyThe Imperial Monopoly MercantilismMercantilism

A Fragmentation of AuthorityA Fragmentation of Authority The State as All-Present, but Not All-The State as All-Present, but Not All-

PowerfulPowerful ““I Obey but Do Not Comply.”I Obey but Do Not Comply.”

The Economy of New The Economy of New SpainSpain

The Example of CortesThe Example of Cortes The Advance of the HaciendaThe Advance of the Hacienda

HacendadosHacendados Marriage and EntailMarriage and Entail An Unstable Elite, at firstAn Unstable Elite, at first

Agriculture & LivestockAgriculture & Livestock MiningMining

Zacatecas, San Luis Zacatecas, San Luis PostosíPostosí The Quinto (Royal Fifth)The Quinto (Royal Fifth)

The Beginnings of ManufacturingThe Beginnings of Manufacturing ObrajesObrajes

Alcoman Monastery

Altar at National Cathedral

Interior View, Cholula Cathedral

Cuernavaca

San Jose Mission, San Antonio

Valladolid

Yaxcabá (in the Yucatán)

The Church in Colonial The Church in Colonial MexicoMexico

The Spanish “Patronato Real”The Spanish “Patronato Real” Secular and Regular ClergySecular and Regular Clergy The Church vs. the EncomenderosThe Church vs. the Encomenderos The Accession of Phillip II (1559)The Accession of Phillip II (1559)

Eroding the Church’s PositionEroding the Church’s Position The Work of ConversionThe Work of Conversion

The Inquisition, 1571The Inquisition, 1571 ““Syncretism”Syncretism”

WordlinessWordliness Fueros, Property AccumulationFueros, Property Accumulation

Colonial SocietyColonial Society

The Vagaries of RaceThe Vagaries of Race Peninsulares, CriollosPeninsulares, Criollos MestizosMestizos IndiansIndians AfricansAfricans Becoming “White”Becoming “White”

The Status and Role of WomenThe Status and Role of Women Population in MexicoPopulation in Mexico