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Tango0101 Dec 2016 4:07 p.m. PST

… America never subdued by the Spaniards.

"The Spanish Conquistadores and mostly the European microbes and diseases that they brought to the New World (smallpox, measles, ‘influenza' and others) – which often were decimating the native tribes even before the physical appearance of the Spaniards themselves – managed between 1492 and 1600 to conquer huge areas of the North, Central and South America starting with the Caribbean world. Due to the spread of the European diseases, the thrashing superiority of the arms, armour and tactics of the Spaniards, their superior socio-political and financial system and other factors, just 11,000 Conquistadores more or less were proved to be enough for the subjugation of many millions of Amerindians in those years.

However, there were some native tribes which seconded by their geographic location in the periphery of the Spanish expansion and by their nomadic or semi-nomadic living, were never subdued by the Spaniards resisting for 300 years more or less, till the end of the 19th century, before they succumb to the new states which came from the fall of the Spanish empire in America (Spanish-American wars of Independence, 1810-1826). The main cases of these native tribes were the Apaches and some Pueblo tribes in the Northern provinces of the Viceroyalty of Nueva Espana (modern Mexico), the Chiriguanos in Upper Peru and the Mapuche in the province of Chile and the Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata…"
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Cyrus the Great01 Dec 2016 8:04 p.m. PST

I love it. No mention of the Indian allied tribes that made it all possible.

Tango0102 Dec 2016 10:26 a.m. PST

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Tango0102 Dec 2016 10:30 a.m. PST

Glad you enjoyed it my friend!. (smile)

You are right….


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