last post! week 15

I believe that the motivating factor is economic gain.  Stern bases his entire book off the changing economy of Huamanga and the surrounding regions.  It is a well known fact that the Spanish were out for economic gains.  The dependency in which the Spanish were able to place on the natives furthered their goals and created a stronger hold on the natives.  The Spaniards luck of finding such a richly populated area of resources and manual labor helped them to achieve their "Gold, Glory, and God."  I however, think that Stern's book should be labeled Peru's Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Colonization, because the information that he presents shows that the Spaniards have already conquered the natives and made them dependent.  They have created a colony in which the natives must pay the colonials and Spain in order to live.  Stern believes that the conquest is still going on today in Peru (193), but I believe that is a different issue of Conquest.  The conquest of Huamanga was completed once control was placed over the natives.  The natives had uprisings but then taken care of.  In any colony there are groups who do not agree but ultimately the area is conquered and the people now work to support the mother country.  Stern's motivating factor of economic gain solidifies this idea of colonization.  It is through the economy that we can see how the Spanish strived for money through goods and resources such as the strong mining locations in the Andes, which ultimately enabled them to achieve more power.