Led a 4 year expedition to the New World

Brought diseases to the new world

diseases decimated the peoples and livestock native to the land

Future settlers were struck by the lack of people and native peoples had been reduced by 96%

wrote one of 2 classic eyewittness narratives of the conquest of Mexico

Accompanied Cortes for 5 years in Mexico

image of North Americans as generated in South America

masculine women

not necessairly derragatory

derriaved from "Grieago" ("That's Greek to me")

familial groups

formed through trade and exchange through kin networks

not market or bartering

based on kinship obligation of exchange

identify with an ayllu as opposed to a broader group

an approach to indigenousness that says that everyone in a country in indigenous

legitimizing occupation of indigenous lands by government

the idea that native cultures are only valued insofar as they remain the same

devalue the cultures of indigenous peoples in all areas and promote eurocentric thoughts

essentialism

modern day time travel tied to tourism