Chapter 3’s myth is “Invisible Warriors” and the myth of chapter 4 is “Under the Lordship of the King.”
Chapter 3 talked about “Invisible Warriors” which were implied the native allies and the African. At that time, the native Mexico had to suffer with not only the Spaniards but also the serious disease; therefore, some native Mexicans join the Spaniards and considered themselves as allies, but not under the Spanish rule. Moreover, the native Mexicans want to use the Spaniards against their opponents “the most obvious example of how Spaniards sought native allies, looked for native divisions” (p 48). There were so many advantages from the native allies “these allies saved the Spaniards from starvation, rescued individual Spaniards, acted as spies, and fought along with Spanish horsemen in the sorties against the besiegers” (p49). Moreover, there were …show more content…
Africans played roles as conquistadors and sources of labor in the Conquest.
In chapter 4, Restall argued that the Spanish conquest was not complete because the Spanish did not directly control their colonies “Spanish control over Peru was almost nonexistent in 1532” (p 71). Furthermore, the native people maintained “a degree of autonomy”, military, spiritual and cultural conquest with the Spanish empire. The “native culture” was still persisted even though after the Spaniard took control. Restall claimed that “the aspect of native culture of greatest concern to Spaniards was religion, as Christianization provided the empire with a rationale and justification that transcended and was supposed to disguise the mundanely self-serving realities of colonial expansion” (p 74, 75). Moreover, there were many natives’ rebellion which against the colonial rules; therefore, there was no peace among natives and between natives and the Spanish. The ideology of the Spanish Empire mentioned by