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New Spain was the first of the viceroyalties that Spain created, the second being Peru in 1542, following the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. Both New Spain and Peru had dense indigenous populations at conquest as a source of labor and material wealth in the form of vast silver deposits, discovered and exploited beginning in the mid-1500s.
Map of north-western New Mexico by Bernando de Miera y Pacheco, 1778. Miera was born in the Valle de Carriedo of Cantabria, [2] Spain. The son of a captain of the Cantabrian Cavalry, he was trained as a military engineer. [2] Like many others, he emigrated to New Spain (in North and Central America).
The Provincias Internas (Spanish: Inner Provinces), also known as the Comandancia y Capitanía General de las Provincias Internas (Commandancy and General Captaincy of the Inner Provinces), was an administrative district of the Spanish Empire created in 1776 to provide more autonomy for the frontier provinces of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, present-day northern Mexico and the Southwestern ...
The evangelization of Mexico. Spanish conquerors saw it as their right and their duty to convert indigenous populations to Catholicism. Because Catholicism had played such an important role in the Reconquista (Catholic reconquest) of the Iberian Peninsula from the Muslims, the Catholic Church in essence became another arm of the Spanish government, since the crown was granted sweeping powers ...
During the period of the Independence of Mexico, part of the territorial organization of New Spain was integrated into the new nation of the Mexican Empire. Added to this were the Captaincy General of Yucatán and the Captaincy General of Guatemala (whose annexation was a strategy to counteract the Spanish crown). This yielded Mexico's largest ...
1778 establishments in New Spain (2 C, 1 P) A. 1778 in The Californias (1 C) S. 1778 in the Spanish West Indies (1 C) This page was last edited on 21 February ...
A map showing the territories of the Viceroyalty of New Spain in 1800 that were gradually annexed by the United States of America over the course of a century and what parts of New Spain were the Republic of Mexico only a century later.
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