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Abstract:
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Conclusion
The discovery of the New World brought wealth to the Old, along
with a great paradigm shift. The Old World had to reexamine and
redevelop its worldview in order to make room for the new peoples that
they had encountered. This process went through stages and spurts,
from transference and justification, to a digestion of newfound material
and a re-categorization, which expanded the worldview instead of
interchanging and slotting peoples into categories that, generally fit at
best. This process was a shared experience by all Europeans that came to
the New World, but the Spanish led the way as they were the first to
begin the process.
Utilizing faith and crusading zeal, the Spanish justified their
conquest of the New World by simply interchanging the identity of the |