Inca Empire to Spanish Colony: Spanish South America to 1824

HIST 370 / 570 (3)

Gauderman

The native cultures in pre-Conquest times; the conquest of the Incas and the colonial settlement of the remainder of Spanish South America; economic, social and cultural developments of colonial times, concentrating on the central Andean region, but with accounts of varying development in other areas; the origins and accomplishment of independence in the early 19th century. (LA)