Jean-Paul Faguet

They also have other investors back in Hispaniola, back in the Canaries, and back in Spain, who have also invested in this expedition, a bit like you invest in a company, right? The way they're going to make it pay for all of them is the conquistadores divide up the indigenous people and they divide up the land. The more senior ones get large numbers of indigenous people.

They also have other investors back in Hispaniola, back in the Canaries, and back in Spain, who have also invested in this expedition, a bit like you invest in a company, right? The way they're going to make it pay for all of them is the conquistadores divide up the indigenous people and they divide up the land. The more senior ones get large numbers of indigenous people.

The less important ones get, you know, smaller plots of land and smaller numbers of indigenous people. And they basically force the indigenous people to work for them. And then they then because their goal, unlike. colonialism in say Massachusetts or Ontario or Virginia, right?

The less important ones get, you know, smaller plots of land and smaller numbers of indigenous people. And they basically force the indigenous people to work for them. And then they then because their goal, unlike. colonialism in say Massachusetts or Ontario or Virginia, right?

Where if you and I got on the boat from England, let's say you and I are in Liverpool or Southampton and we got on the boat and we're thinking, should I go to Virginia or should I go to Columbia?

Where if you and I got on the boat from England, let's say you and I are in Liverpool or Southampton and we got on the boat and we're thinking, should I go to Virginia or should I go to Columbia?

well, you probably couldn't go to Columbia if you weren't Spanish, but leaving that aside, then you're going to go to Massachusetts or Virginia and you're going to get a small piece of land and you're going to work it with your family, right? And you and your wife are going to have children and you're going to work the land and so you're going to have a few acres, right?

well, you probably couldn't go to Columbia if you weren't Spanish, but leaving that aside, then you're going to go to Massachusetts or Virginia and you're going to get a small piece of land and you're going to work it with your family, right? And you and your wife are going to have children and you're going to work the land and so you're going to have a few acres, right?

That's not what the Spanish were doing. The Spanish wanted to set themselves up as lords with hundreds or thousands of people working for them so they could live this great, this grand life. And they would never work again, having risked it all to get there in the first place.

That's not what the Spanish were doing. The Spanish wanted to set themselves up as lords with hundreds or thousands of people working for them so they could live this great, this grand life. And they would never work again, having risked it all to get there in the first place.

The idea, the objective was to set up a new life and be great lords in South America. So a sharp parenthesis, amongst Latin Americans today, my mother's from Colombia, I have a huge Colombian family, the kind of story that Colombians and Latin Americans like to tell ourselves is

The idea, the objective was to set up a new life and be great lords in South America. So a sharp parenthesis, amongst Latin Americans today, my mother's from Colombia, I have a huge Colombian family, the kind of story that Colombians and Latin Americans like to tell ourselves is

is that it was these great lords who came from Spain to conquer Latin America because this makes us the descendants of great people. No, the great lords were living in their castles in Spain. Why would they go to Colombia in 1530? No, I mean, they're probably not gonna survive for starters.

is that it was these great lords who came from Spain to conquer Latin America because this makes us the descendants of great people. No, the great lords were living in their castles in Spain. Why would they go to Colombia in 1530? No, I mean, they're probably not gonna survive for starters.

So the people who went were the second, third and fourth sons of the minor nobility who didn't have that much to inherit because the first son was going to inherit what there was and there probably wasn't enough to share.

So the people who went were the second, third and fourth sons of the minor nobility who didn't have that much to inherit because the first son was going to inherit what there was and there probably wasn't enough to share.

So, you know, we were getting the second, third and fourth class of now, you know, these were people who were educated in the main, not all of them, but in the main and who had some means because they had to finance themselves to get to Colombia. But they weren't the great dukes and lords of Spain.

So, you know, we were getting the second, third and fourth class of now, you know, these were people who were educated in the main, not all of them, but in the main and who had some means because they had to finance themselves to get to Colombia. But they weren't the great dukes and lords of Spain.

So what they wanted was to set themselves up in Colombia to live a better life than they could have had back in Spain. Many of them became so wealthy that then they went back and forth. The objective was to capture resources, build a grand house and have hundreds or thousands of people forced to work for you.

So what they wanted was to set themselves up in Colombia to live a better life than they could have had back in Spain. Many of them became so wealthy that then they went back and forth. The objective was to capture resources, build a grand house and have hundreds or thousands of people forced to work for you.