La gran Chichimeca una frontera inestable para nueva España

Resum

Since the fall of Tenochtitlan, the Spanish conquerors aspire to find another great indigenous empire that would offer them the wealth, fame and power that Triple Alliance given them. This reason and the economic and geographic interest in finding the northwest pass made many go north. The colonization of New Spain’s north beginning slowly and with too many setbacks since early season. Little by little, as the “great north” was discovered and the Spanish population settled in the new lands, they find resources that changed everything, the famous silver and gold mines in a little-known region until then. “La Great Chichimeca” an endless number of valleys, mountain ranges and rivers were quickly explored and colonized. This causes the hostility of the Indians and leading to the formation of an unstable and complicated border. In this wide region, the Spaniards will face for the first time the challenges of the conquest and colonization of a land with complicated orography and populated by scattered Chichimec tribes. This border, the war that was lived in blood and fire, the methods of control territory, the colonization and the adaptation of the Spanish tactics to the elusive and fierce enemy served as precedent and example to the Spaniards to adapt to this new reality American border, and overcome similar obstacles in other borders, as will be, subsequently, the New Mexico.