This book is a world history adult book about the Spanish colonization of the Americas and their work with the indigenous people to write local history.
500 Years ago, in 1517, the Spanish conquistadors attacked Mexico and started colonizing the area. They not only brought guns, diseases, and religion, but also the way Europeans wrote history. In order to carry out the decree, the Spaniards had to know the customs and past of the conquered people, but they knew nothing about local society.
What is history and time for Indians? At that time, time was not a universal value. How did the Spaniards, trained in the European Christian time pattern, accept the Mesoamerican cosmology and worldview? Over the course of just a few decades, the invaders struggled to capture the memories of American Indian societies in an attempt to reconstruct a past tied to the heritage of the Christian world. For the Indians, beings, things, and gods are connected in their world, a connection that fades over the generations, but some mysterious part of memory remains preserved in mysterious manuscripts.
In this book, Serge Grukinsky delves into the origins of colonial expansion and explains how missionaries and Indians in the Americas wrote world history.
