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The Requerimiento: How Spain Justified Conquest with a Medieval Document
Before conquistadors drew swords, Spanish colonizers were required by law to read a document to Indigenous peoples: the Requerimiento. This 'Requirement' declared that the Pope had granted the Americas to Spain, and that refusal to submit would result in enslavement or death — all in Spanish, read to people who couldn't understand it. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the origins of the Requerimiento in the context of the Reconquista, its first reading by Juan de León in 1514 on the coast of present-day Colombia, and the legal and theological debates it sparked. They…
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