Spanish, Portuguese and the Pope
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- Individual Spanish Administration
- Cortés & Pizarro allocated lands and labor rights to their troops
- Used encomienda system
- Spanish Colonial Administration
- 1570, Spanish Crown takes control
- 2 centers of authority established
- Mexico City, New Spain (Mexico)
- Lima, New Castile (Peru)
- Capital moved from Cuzco b/c of high altitude
- Viceroys
- Acted as king's representative in Americas, wielded considerable power
- Can be compared to Satraps or Counts
- Audiencias
- Courts staffed by educated lawyers
- reviewed viceroy's decisions & policies, then reported to the king
- Checked viceroys power and prevented rebellions/revolutions
- Can be compared to Missi Dominci or Imperial Spies
- Schism between Spain & Portugal
- Treaty of Tordesillas
- Divided world along an imaginary N-S line
- Spain could claim any land west of line as long as it was not already under Christian rule
- Same rights for Portugal west of line
- Replaced the Pope's Line of Demarcation (established by Alexander VI)
- Resulted in Portugal gaining Brazil while Spain gained the rest of Latin America