Independencia De México

By the mid-sixteenth century, Spanish conquest of the major Indian societies in the Americas was more or less complete. There were, however, many indigenous societies that still remained outside theorbit of Spanish control, usually because they were in remote and inaccessible regions, had no obvious economic resources to exploit, or were able to mount effective resistance to Spanish incursions.Some of these societies continued to exist beyond the boundaries of the Iberian world throughout the colonial period; for others, those boundaries were broken down as Spanish colonial settlementexpanded from its early bases and extended into regions that the Spaniards had initially found too difficult to colonize. Movements of this kind on the frontier of Spanish settlement occurred throughoutHispanic America, as missionaries and settlers carried Spanish influence and Spanish government into peripheral regions from northern Mexico to southern Chile. 1 Frontier expansion of this kind alsooccurred in areas of New Granada (modern Colombia), where settlers pushed into previously uncolonized regions both to the east and to the west of the major settlements in the interior. One significantdirection in which the frontier expanded was into the Chocó, the large lowland region on New Granada's Pacific flank. Here, Spanish penetration was driven by both missionary zeal and, more powerfully,by the search for gold
The south border of the Viceroyalty of the River of the Silver was delimited by the different native towns that populated the region of the pampas and the north of the orientalPatagonia. Diverse military campaigns and peace agreements were carried out by the Spanish colonial rulers with the purpose to contain their attacks or to advance on their territories to incorporatethem. The towns involved at the beginning were of the groups tehuelche and pehuenche chiefly and after the expansion of the Araucanians originating in the Araucanía, the war was centered against...