Yeah, and one more thing: Is it true that in 1504, all indigenous people were decreed subjects of the empire with the same rights and obligations their fellow subjects in Spain? And another question: is it true that the first books printed in the New World were in Nahuatl, Maya & Quechua, and that they were translation of those indigenous languages to Spanish? Is it also true that town councils were populated often solely by indigenous men and they spoke and conducted affairs in their language and not in Spanish? Is it true that among the 13 universities established by the Spanish one the ones in Nueva España (Mexico) was a technical university staffed by professors sent from the university of Salamanca by order of king Felipe II?!? Is it also true that the oldest American university (still functioning) is San Marcos in Peru, and that it was established decades before the invading English established Harvard university in 1636, but was not open to indigenous or (shudder) blacks? Is it hearsay, or did Queen Isabel la Católica decree that indigenous and Spanish were to marry, and that mixed marriages were NEVER forbidden, but encouraged in the 300 hundred years of the Spanish empire in Indias (it was never called America - that was coined by the perfidious French). Queer how detractors can "overlook" such facts, huh? When you look at your 20$ bill; remember the Trail of Tears, and when you fondle the $100 bill, Ben Franklin stated that the only good indian was a dead one.
M y valuable time could have been saved had I known that my verifiable comments on the history of Hispanic and indigenous meetings was going to be blocked.
Yeah, and one more thing: Is it true that in 1504, all indigenous people were decreed subjects of the empire with the same rights and obligations their fellow subjects in Spain? And another question: is it true that the first books printed in the New World were in Nahuatl, Maya & Quechua, and that they were translation of those indigenous languages to Spanish? Is it also true that town councils were populated often solely by indigenous men and they spoke and conducted affairs in their language and not in Spanish? Is it true that among the 13 universities established by the Spanish one the ones in Nueva España (Mexico) was a technical university staffed by professors sent from the university of Salamanca by order of king Felipe II?!? Is it also true that the oldest American university (still functioning) is San Marcos in Peru, and that it was established decades before the invading English established Harvard university in 1636, but was not open to indigenous or (shudder) blacks? Is it hearsay, or did Queen Isabel la Católica decree that indigenous and Spanish were to marry, and that mixed marriages were NEVER forbidden, but encouraged in the 300 hundred years of the Spanish empire in Indias (it was never called America - that was coined by the perfidious French). Queer how detractors can "overlook" such facts, huh? When you look at your 20$ bill; remember the Trail of Tears, and when you fondle the $100 bill, Ben Franklin stated that the only good indian was a dead one.
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