Accept our king, our god − or else: The senseless ‘requirement’ Spanish colonizers used to justify their bloodshed in the Americas

The Requerimiento, a 16th-century document, sheds light on the deeper ideas and laws that the Spanish used to take over the ...
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Spanish colonizers: 'Accept our king, our god − or else'

Across the United States, the second Monday of October is increasingly becoming known as Indigenous Peoples Day. In the push to rename Columbus Day, Christopher Columbus himself has become a metaphor ...
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Spanish language is a key component of Hispanic heritage, identity

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Spanish is the fourth most spoken language in the world with nearly 500 million identifying Spanish as their first language. When the Kingdom of Spain colonized the indigenous ...
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Spanish influence on Mississippi’s early settlements

Spanish people have had a hand in Mississippi’s history from the days of the European explorers. The first contact Native ...
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NATO’s Provocative Visit to Melilla: Colonial Theater on Moroccan Soil

As expected, the NATO Parliamentary Assembly has staged an unprecedented first-ever colonial spectacle in Melilla, parading ...
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Accept our king, our god — or else: The senseless ‘requirement’ Spanish colonizers used to justify their bloodshed in the Americas

Catch-22 In 1494, the Treaty of Tordesillas infamously divided much of the world beyond Europe into two halves: one for the Spanish crown, the other for the Portuguese. Spaniards lay claim to almost ...