Download This PaperConquistador Politics, Struggles for Compensation, and the Propulsion of Conquest in Chile, 1539-1554
51 Pages Posted: 3 Oct 2015 Last revised: 13 Jun 2019
Date Written: 1996
Abstract
Between 1539 and 1554, the internal conflict over rewards between the leaders of the Spanish colony in Chile and the colonists below them fueled the effort to conquer the indigenous Mapuche people, despite the lack of gold or silver in Chile and the conquistadors' repeated defeats in battle by the Mapuche.
Keywords: Chile, conquest, Mapuche, Arauco, Pedro de Valdivia, colonial Chile, 16th century Chile, Chilean history, Latin American history, Araucania, Araucanía
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Holt, Daniel, Conquistador Politics, Struggles for Compensation, and the Propulsion of Conquest in Chile, 1539-1554 (1996). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2668705 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2668705
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