Skip to main content

colonization -- colonized -- colonizing

 Subject

Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Scope Note: Art & Architecture Thesaurus\ACTIVITIES FACET\Functions\functions (activities)\functions by specific context\governmental functions\

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Carte de l'Amérique et des Mers Voisines, 1763

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 233.Unknown]
Identifier: 3976.76
Translated Title

Map of America and Neighboring Seas



Descriptive Title

La Petit Atlas Manitime, Volume I

Dates: 1763

First official decree issued by Hernán Cortés after the conquest of Mexico Tenochtitlán, August 14, 1521

 Item — Box 45
Identifier: 4075.3916
Desription First official decree issued by Hernán Cortés after the conquest of Mexico Tenochtitlán.Title/description created by Clevy Lloyd Strout, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Tulsa, 1962. Label Text Signed by Hernán Cortés, Juan de Ribera, and Hernán Sánchez de Aguilar on August 14, 1521, this decree is possibly the first official document issued following Cortés's subjugation of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlán. It...
Dates: August 14, 1521

Letter from Diego Colón, son of Christopher Columbus, to King Charles V, circa 1520

 Item — Box 45
Identifier: 4075.3918
Description This is a letter from Diego Colón to Charles V, in which Diego outlines his future plans for colonization of the Spanish Indies. He also voices his support of the crusade of the Spanish Friar, las Casas, who was at that time in Spain, campaigning for the freedom of the enslaved natives of the New World. He also (in one paragraph) requests authority to import African slaves into the New World in exchange for the Indians' freedom. This is the earliest known reference among Spanish documents...
Dates: circa 1520