The Encounter

This chapter was aboout the conquest and colonization of Latin American countries. The Latin America conquest and colonization created patterns of social domination. European logic of conquest soured the Encounter everywhere form Mexico to Argentina. Something that I found interesting in this chapter was that semisedentary societies, indigenous people of Brazilian history, organized themselves by tribes and by gender roles; not by social nor did they build empires. Another thing was that Mexico was given it's name by the rulers of the Aztec Empire. The rulers were called the Mexicas. This chapter also talked about that the name Inca actually reffered on to the emperor and his empire, not the people.