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Christianity varied. Many Indians adapted to Spanish ways by breaking with their traditions and actively attempting to enter the market economy. They also used the courts to protect their interests, especially against new tribute assessments. Others,
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in Potosí indicated the crown's concern with technical improvements in silver production. The attempts to revive the mining sector in Upper Peru were only partially successful, however, and could not halt the economic collapse of Potosí at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Nevertheless, mining
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tribes in the eastern
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in Spain tried to reform the colonial economy in the mid-eighteenth century by reviving mining. The
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was a great center of trade and religion, and the impact of its culture spread far beyond the boundaries of present-day
Bolivia. Apparently, the Tiahuanacan Empire was established through colonization rather than through conquest. Its rapid expansion after 1000 and sudden collapse around 1200 are
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with a storage capacity of several million tons provided a steady supply of water for refineries. With the labor and technological problems resolved, silver mining flourished. By the middle of the seventeenth century, silver mining at Potosí had become so important that the city had the largest
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had judicial authority as well as administrative and executive powers in the region, but only in routine matters; more important decisions were made in Lima. This situation led to a competitive attitude and the reputation of Upper Peru for assertiveness, a condition reinforced by the economic
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America can be explained partly by the successful administration of the colonies. Spain was at first primarily interested in controlling the independent-minded conquerors, but its main goal soon became maintaining the flow of revenue to the crown and
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had divided the Incan territory, with the north under the control of
Pizarro and the south under that of Almagro. Fighting broke out in 1537, however, when Almagro seized Cuzco after suppressing the Manco Inca rebellion. Pizarro defeated and executed Almagro in 1538, following the
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Indians. Easily susceptible to European diseases, the native population decreased rapidly. The situation of the Indians worsened in the eighteenth century when Spain demanded higher tribute payments and increased
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were later founded. By the beginning of the sixteenth century, the Incas had fully established their rule over the
Kollasuyo. In modern times, the legacy of this resettlement policy could still be seen in the predominance of Quechua speakers in many areas of Bolivia.
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who took the names of the two rebel martyrs by calling himself Túpac Catari (also spelled Katari). He besieged La Paz for more than 100 days. Spain did not succeed in putting down all of the revolts until 1783 and then proceeded to execute thousands of
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however, clung to their customs as much as possible, and some rebelled against the white rulers. Local, mostly uncoordinated, rebellions occurred throughout colonial rule. More than 100 revolts occurred in the eighteenth century alone in
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system, giving extensive powers to highly qualified officials who were directly responsible to the king. In 1784 Spain established four intendancy districts in Upper Peru, covering the present-day departments of La Paz, Cochabamba, Potosí, and Chuquisaca.
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disappeared rapidly, the Indians continued their local worship under the protection of local Indian rulers. But as Christianity influenced the Indians, a new folk-Catholicism developed, incorporating symbols of the indigenous religion. (See
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and Indians. But by the late eighteenth century, an increase in the Indian population, the extension of tribute payments to all Indian males (including those who owned land), and a relative decline in income from the mines combined to make
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when they adopted the name of their rulers, were the most powerful group in the northern highlands. As the Aymara kingdoms in the south became weaker in the second half of the fifteenth century, the Incas began to conquer them.
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also imported goods and forced the Indians to buy them, a widely abused practice that proved to be an enormous source of wealth for these officials but caused much resentment among the Indian population.
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in the public square of Cuzco in 1572. Later revolts in the Bolivian highlands were usually organized by the elders of the community and remained local in nature, the exception being the
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and anti-Spanish. The church was tolerant of local Indian religions. In 1582, for example, the bishop of La Plata permitted the Indians to build a sanctuary for the dark
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against the new rulers and restored a "neo-Inca" state. This state continued to challenge Spanish authority even after the Spanish suppressed the revolt and beheaded
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remained critical to the economy of Upper Peru because food supplies sent from the valleys to mining centers on the Altiplano influenced agricultural production.
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valleys on the eastern slopes of the Andes and on the Pacific coast, they were able to produce both tropical and highland crops. Their basic social unit was the
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as well as on a labor system in which relatively free men worked alongside those who were coerced. Toledo also regulated the mining laws, established a
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and later executed him, even after payment of a ransom equivalent to half a century of European production of gold and silver. One year later,
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to large estates, on which Indians worked in exchange for the use of land. Cochabamba became a major producer of
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821:Inquisition
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519:coca leaves
507:encomiendas
486:encomiendas
477:encomiendas
296:Túpac Amaru
277:Tupac Amaru
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859:References
841:John Locke
732:Copacabana
646:intendancy
634:corregidor
601:Chuquisaca
553:annually.
547:absolutism
482:encomienda
468:metallurgy
355:Chiriguano
351:Gran Chaco
284:Manco Inca
166:Cochabamba
99:irrigation
87:Tiahuanaco
720:messianic
688:bishopric
625:audiencia
605:audiencia
597:audiencia
584:audiencia
564:New World
252:Atahualpa
143:Kollasuyo
71:Altiplano
849:criollos
845:criollos
800:criollos
792:Criollos
787:criollos
692:La Plata
621:Paraguay
617:hectares
543:alcabala
527:alcabala
342:center.
292:rebelled
215:led the
817:criollo
696:Jesuits
613:leagues
609:Charcas
496:tribute
452:bullion
397:viceroy
328:Gonzalo
315:Charcas
248:Huascar
178:nomadic
161:mitimas
123:Quechua
85:coast.
83:Pacific
81:to the
37:settled
778:sexton
371:silver
367:Potosí
336:La Paz
269:fell.
225:Panama
211:, and
95:Aymara
52:copper
41:Andean
864:Notes
551:pesos
515:wheat
444:veins
267:Cuzco
170:Sucre
135:Incas
127:Cuzco
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