a. Most important families: Araucanians; Arawak; Aymara; Aztec; Carib; Charrua; Chibcha; Coconuco; Guarani; Inca; Maya; Mojos; Puelche; Quechua; Tapuya; Tupi, etc.
a. The Aztecs of Mexico.
b. The Incas of Peru.
a. Early regulations; instructions to Columbus; laws of Burgos, 1512; laws of 1530.
b. The "New Laws," 1542.
c. Labor laws and customs:
1. Encomienda.
2. Repartimiento.
3. Mita.
4. Office of corregidor.
d. Indian slavery; service in obrages and trapiches; effect of labor system on Indians.
e. Law and practice.
1. Encomienda.
2. Repartimiento.
3. Mita.
4. Office of corregidor.
a. The Spanish theory.
b. The asiento.
c. Laws governing negro slave labor.
1. Spanish types in the colonies:
Basque; Gallego; Catalan; Andalusian.
2. Classes and race distinctions:
Chapeton (gachupines); Creole; Mestizo; Mulatto; Zambo.
3. Classes and the government; the divide et impera policy.
4. Legacy of class distinction.
5. Spanish recognition of Creoles and natives; numbers ennobled.
6. Colonial society; diversions; pursuits; occupations.
7. The towns; pueblos; the cercados.
Basque; Gallego; Catalan; Andalusian.
Chapeton (gachupines); Creole; Mestizo; Mulatto; Zambo.
Required Readings: Shepherd, 29-38; Morris, 252-254; Garcia Calderon, Latin America: Its Rise and Progress, 44-58; Bourne, 253-268; Keller, 211-220; Moses, Establishment of Spanish Rule, Chapter II; ——, South America on the Eve of Emancipation, 100-118.
Additional Readings: Humboldt, Personal Narrative of Travels; Reclus, The Earth and Its Inhabitants—South America; Frezier, Voyage a la Mer de Sud; Ulloa, A Voyage to South America.
a. Primogeniture, entails, and mortmain.
b. Spanish repartimientos and encomiendas; Portuguese capitanias and prazos.
2. Methods of acquiring real estate.
3. Attitude of home government toward colonial manufactures.
4. Stock raising; the Mesta; agricultural products introduced by the Spanish.
5. Mines and mining in South and North America.