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The Causes of the Physical Degeneracy of Mexican Indians after the Spanish Conquest as set forth by Mexican Informants in 15801

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

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In the year 1577 King Philip II of Spain issued a decree to all Spanish officials in the New World ordering them to obtain and send him answers to a questionnaire consisting of fifty searching inquiries, intended to elicit information which would “facilitate the good government and ennoblement” of “the Indies.”

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1927

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1 Extracted from Official Reportssent by Francisco de Castañedo to His Majesty Philip II and the Council of the Indies in 1580. Translated and edited…by Zelia Nuttall. Published by the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, vol. ii, No. 2 (Cambridge, Mass.), 1926.