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Video Resources

  1. This fragment of the documentary Guns, Germs, and Steel (based on the book by Jared Diamond) discusses the effects of smallpox in the New World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt5g-1DtVL0 (9:29)
  2. In this video, historian Lawrence Clayton discusses how Bartolomé de las Casas's views regarding African slavery evolved: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zja-A8zxNZo

Links

  1. This website contains the “Royal Instructions” from the king to Antonio de Mendoza, the first viceroy of New Spain: http://faculty.smu.edu/bakewell/BAKEWELL/texts/mendoza-instructions.html
  2. This website contains discussion and digitalized copy of the Florentine Codex, compiled from indigenous sources by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún in the 1540s: http://www.wdl.org/en/item/10096/#q=Florentine+Codex
  3. This section of the Vistas website features visual representations of religious practice and visions of the afterlife: http://www.smith.edu/vistas/vistas_web/otherworldly.htm#
  4. This website, maintained by a Catholic association, tells the story of the apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe: http://www.queenoftheamericasguild.org/index.html
  5. This Mapas Project website features colonial Mesoamerican pictorial manuscripts: http://mapas.uoregon.edu/index.lasso
  6. This website contains the first written account of the apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe in 1649 by Luis Laso de la Vega: http://pages.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/nahuatl/nican/NicanMopohua.html
  7. This website contains photographs and discussion of hundreds of examples of Mexican religious and secular colonial architecture: http://www.mexicanarchitecture.org/?page=home
  8. This UNESCO-World Heritage Convention website contains photographs, descriptions, maps, and documents of Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of Querétaro: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1079
  9. This website contains images and discusses the history of Santa Fe de la Laguna, where Vasco de Quiroga established one of his utopian hospitals: http://www.lakepatzcuaro.org/SantaFe.html
  10. This PBS website contains documents related to expeditions in the northern frontiers of New Spain: http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/one/

Primary Documents from the Text

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