Spanish Colonial Rule - Law and Religion

Spanish colonial line up affected about every aspect of Indian breeding. It dismantled political structures and modify communities by taking microscopic villages into structure them into larger social. And by establishing a community graduation then came the physical building of one. Hence Spanish rule taking control, economic ally, by depute labor and premium from the primal population. Such labor was require for the construction of palaces, churches, waterworks, and roads all necessary to establish a Spanish dominating force. Spanish to a fault asserted their hegemony by taking control of fundamental amounts of land taken from the endemical population. Increasing demand for tribute payments led to Indians selling, renting, and pawning of property, and even eventually led to indebtedness in wills for the native population. \nThe Spanish compound system could not whole dominate by force. The indigenous population was too great and culturally diverse. Thus wherefore the Spanish created their legal system. Indian records show that litigants of lawsuits consistently went to Spanish officials when Indian officials make decisions against them. The borrowing and use of Spanish law by the Indians only made the control stronger. Religion too played a hulking part of Spanish colonial rule. The Spanish were smart and were determined about converting the natives to their piety. It was just another(prenominal) form of control. This caused the natives to practice their beliefs at home and their new Christian beliefs out in habitual and eventually the two coordinated into a dual apparitional system. And by doing this it became natural and was a part of their life and customs. By using religion as a hegemony tool the Spanish were able to reconstruct the Indians dash of life according to their rules. \nSpanish Colonial rule was also able to breach by means of the Indians public life, with state laws and became a part of their private life through the church. And it was through religion that they to...