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Jiang argues that the Spanish period explanation is rejected because of its racist self-understanding, but that its religious logic still contains more evidence than current scholarly interpretation allows.
Jiang argues Spanish cruelty to native peoples was not unique compared with previous native overlords, because those prior religious hierarchies had already enslaved and dominated surrounding people.
"...practice of the Aztecs, Incas, and Mayans made them vulnerable to Spanish conquest."
"favor of the gods okay they are worthy therefore therefore we must submit them ourselves before them okay and that's how we worship the..."
"extremely cruel to the natives not more so than the previous overlords okay does that make sense guys all right all right so what..."
Disease, steel, horses, and divide-and-conquer matter.
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