History Essay URGENT

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The takeaways: Even the sedentary areas take a long time to conquer. After the Aztec Empire falls, there is still Michoacán and Oaxaca to subdue. And the neo-Inca in Peru do not fall until the 1570s. Conquistadors get their wealth in encomiendas , native communities retained as estates providing labor and tribute. All of the in-fighting of the conquistadors, their abuses, and indigenous uprisings convince the crown they cannot trust conquistadors to govern the Americas. By the 1560s the Hapsburg kings of Spain bring in priests, royal officials, and viceroys to establish order and take power away from conquistadors. Laws are passed limiting or eliminating encomiendas . New Spain and Peru become viceroyalties. Even then only parts of Mexico and Peru are solidly conquered. Semisedentary people like the Maya take years to subdue; they can readily hide in the jungles when under attack. Semisedentaries in Paraguay absorb Spanish settlers into their culture Nonsedentary people like the Mapuche and Comanche are never conquered and form powerful confederations that dominate Spaniards. Nomadic people have no cities to destroy, no powerful leaders to kidnap, and they gain guns, steel, and horses to use for themselves. As Brazil moves toward a plantation economy using indigenous slavery, the once-friendly semi- sedentaries become alientated and move further into the Amazon and resist. The responses of non- and (especially) semi- sedentaries to Iberians are more diverse than those of the sedentary empires. In general, non- sedentaries fiercely resist and defeat Spaniards instantly, and semi- sedentaries receive Spaniards in peace at first, resisting later when abuses become unbearable. Both are harder to defeat than sedentary empires.