The Conquest of the Indies

The council of the indies decided that direct rule by the au entias, basically government by committee, was too unwieldy to be the final final authority. So they reformulated things again, creating first the viceroyalty of new spain in 15 35, and then the vicer Loyalty of peru in 15 forty two. The viceroy was, like it sounds, a royal emissary exercising royal sovereignty. And one thing worth noting is that new spain and peru were referred to as kingdoms rather than colonies. Nothing was called a colony, at least not until the bourbon forms that we're going to talk about next week.