Conquerors to bureaucrats bureaucracy ascendant, 1550-

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Conquerors to bureaucrats bureaucracy ascendant, 1550-

Theory of patriarchal rule:

Structure of colonial administration--mix of judicial, administrative, executive modeled after Spain

Formation of Audiencias

Don Antonio de Mendoza (1490-1552)

Don Francisco de Toledo, Viceroy of Peru, 1569-81

Authority, flexibility, and stability

New Laws of 1542 (Charles I)

Residencia of 1565 Mexico City

Conspiracy of the Encomenderos, 1565-68 (New Spain)

One of the first visitadores of the Church (Peru)

Visitador Julio Lopez de Quintanilla

Corregimiento

Clergy: regulars and secular

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún

Primer to teach writing to natives Mexico, 1569

New towns centered on churches

Ixmiquilpan, Hidalgo (Mexico)

Friars administered to the sick and dying

Virgin of Guadalupe…said to have appeared Dec 1531 to Juan Diego

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Author: Department of History

Email: rmccaa@maroon.tc.umn.edu

Home Page: http://www.hist.umn.edu/~rmccaa/

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