The Requerimiento
1513 · Event
Spain's legal formula read — in Spanish — to Native peoples before conquest, demanding submission to the Crown and the Church or face war and slavery.
On these timelines: Latin America, Conquest of the Aztec Empire, Master, Spain
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- Luther's 95 Theses (1517)