The Spanish Justification Flashcards
What mandate did the Spanish use to justify their actions? What did it dictate?
The Petrine mandate gave the church jurisdiction over temporal and spiritual matters (both believers and infidels.
What was the ‘official’ justification for the conquistadors?
It was a religious mission to bring Christianity to natives peoples
What did Pope Innocent |V believe?
war can not be waged + land not taken from infidels.
Force is only legitimate when peoples violate the natural law.
Who brought about the Church’s opinion on the ‘natural laws’?
St. Thomas Aquinas
What kinds of things violated the Church’s natural law’?
nakedness, unwillingness to labour, cannibalism.
This meant that Pope Innocent |V believed force was necessary.
What did colonists think should be done to the natives?
labour + religious instruction (slavery + forced conversion)
Facts about the religious population…
250,000 - 15,000 after 2 decades of Spanish occupation.
What did Franciscus De Victoria insist? How did he back this up?
That the pope and Christian leaders proposed jurisdiction was incorrect, concluding that the Natural laws only applied to those who know of their existence.
The Natives didn’t know so the Christians reasoning was flawed.
What set of laws did Franciscus De Victoria create?
The nation’s laws:
- affects all
- those who are stopping peaceful travel and trade get no rights lol
How did Franciscus justify the slavery of the Natives? What did he recommend be done?
They infringed the nation’s laws.
warfare should be limited to measures that were required to attain peaceful trade + missionary work.
