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365: 338: 572:, which was increasingly populated, explored and economically exploited. Much land in Central Chile was cleared with fire during this period. On the contrary, open fields in southern Chile were overgrown as indigenous populations declined due to diseases introduced by the Spanish and intermittent warfare. The loss of the cities meant Spanish settlements in Chile became increasingly rural, with the 350: 663:
The abandoned city of Valdivia turned into an attractive site for Spain's enemies to control since it would allow them to establish a base amidst Spain's Chilean possessions. Recognizing this situation the Spanish attempted to reoccupy Valdivia in the 1630s but were thwarted by hostile Mapuches. The
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writes that Mapuches killed more than 3,000 Spanish and took over 500 women as captives. Many children and Spanish clergy were also captured. Skilled artisans, renegade Spanish, and women were generally spared by the Mapuches. In the case of the women it was, in the words of González de Nájera, "to
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Guzmán, Carmen Luz (2013). "Las cautivas de las Siete Ciudades: El cautiverio de mujeres hispanocriollas durante la Guerra de Arauco, en la perspectiva de cuatro cronistas (s. XVII)" [The captives of the Seven Cities: The captivity of hispanic-creole women during the Arauco's War, from the
698:, a contemporary literary chronicle (1598–1600) which describes the events surrounding the Destruction of the Seven Cities, is notable for its realistic and unvarnished commentary, and for its criticism of both Spanish and Mapuche actions. 848:
Rozas, Vicente; Le-Quesne, Carlos; Rojas-Badilla, Moisés; González, Mauro E.; González-Reyes, Álvaro (2018). "Coupled human-climate signals on the fire history of upper Cachapoal Valley, Mediterranean Andes of Chile, since 1201 CE".
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The Destruction of the Seven Cities reduced the settlements at Chiloé to an exclave, cut off from the remainder of Spanish Chile. The region, therefore, developed as an isolated and highly peripheral Spanish outpost.
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Over the next few years, the Mapuche were able to destroy or force the abandonment of many cities and minor settlements including all seven of the Spanish cities in Mapuche territory south of the
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in 1641. Some Spanish women became accustomed to Mapuche life and stayed voluntarily among the Mapuche. The Spanish understood this phenomenon as a result either of women's
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The capture of women during the Destruction of the Seven Cities initiated a tradition of abductions of Spanish women in the 17th century by Mapuches.
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sent 1,000 men in twenty ships (and 2,000 men by land, who never made it) in 1644 to resettle Valdivia and fortify it.
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assume the role of "military capital" of Chile. This informal role was given by the establishment of the Spanish
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and settlers recognised the fragility of Spanish rule in southern Chile. In 1576, Melchior Calderón wrote to the
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While some Spanish women were recovered in Spanish raids, others were set free only in agreements following the
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uprising of 1598. The Destruction of the Seven Cities, in traditional historiography, marks the end of the
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La huella del fuego: Historia de los bosques nativos. Poblamiento y cambios en el paisaje del sur de Chile
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arguing for diminishing the number of cities in southern Chile by merging them, he proposed to merge
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1598 destruction of seven Spanish settlements in South America by a Mapuche–Huilliche uprising
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Seis años de la historia de Chile: 23 de diciembre de 1598- 9 de abril de 1605: memoria histórica
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A 1646 illustration of La Imperial, one of the Spanish colonial cities destroyed by the Mapuches.
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De "La Araucana" a "Butamalón". El discurso de la conquista y el canon de la literatura chilena
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The precarity of Spanish control over Chile in the 17th century prompted comparison to the
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or their shame at having been abused. Women in captivity gave birth to a large number of
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Historia contemporánea de Chile III. La economía: mercados empresarios y trabajadores.
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and Guaiquimilla, with three hundred men ambushed and killed the Spanish governor
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a key Mapuche leader in the Destruction of the Seven Cities. Image from the book
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to refer to the destruction or abandonment of seven major Spanish outposts in
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Relación del viaje de Fray Diego de Ocaña por el Nuevo Mundo (1599-1605)
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Gregorio Víctor Amunátegui. El capitán don Fernando Álvarez de Toledo.
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The Destruction of the Seven Cities had a long-lasting impact on the
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When Valdivia and Osorno were destroyed, Spanish settlers and loyal
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Origen de las ciudades chilenas: Las fundaciones del siglo XVIII
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The collapse of the Spanish cities in the south following the
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in the city which was financed by a payments of silver from
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labour, and formed into a militia with a salary from the
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Index

Mapuche Revolt of 1598
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Arauco War
Quilacura
Andalien
Penco
1553 uprising
Tucapel
Marihueñu
1st Concepción
2nd Concepción
Peteroa
Mataquito
San Luis
Lagunillas
Millarapue
Cayucupil
Cañete
Quiapo
1562 uprising
1st Catirai
Arauco
Angol
3rd Concepción
Reinohuelén
Tolmillán
2nd Catirai
1st Purén

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