Some military and symbolic strategies of conquest during the first contact between the Indo-American and the peninsular cultures, according to proposals subtracted from "El Príncipe" by Nicola Machiavelli

Abstract

The following work establishes a dialogue between some concepts proposed as military strategies of conquest by Nikolas Machiavelli in his text The Prince and other authors of the time, their possible relationships and contradictions in the context of the Indoamerican conquest by the Spanish crown and some power groups. The texts that will be discussed will be The Brief History of the Destruction of the Indies by Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, La Bula Inter-Caetera by Alejandro VI and The Controversy of Valladolid, since many of the aspects raised in these texts allow to extract historical data that are considered of great importance for their historical, anthropological, geographical, theological, philosophical and political references.