:The Spanish conquerors of the Middle American and Andean worlds immediately overwhelmed their ill-equipped and unsuspecting victims by force of arms; they virtually exterminated those elements of the population that were the repositories of the indigenous cultures; they substituted themselves as an alien dominant minority, and they reduced the rural population to the status of an internal proletariat of the Western Christian society ...<ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=aRmTMxO61m4C&pg=PA179&lpg=PA179&ots=TyCdfo3VXE&sig=E01vOp1lxi7EezYIOuZ9U-Jgk9g#PPA180,M1</ref>
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:The Spanish conquerors of the Middle American and Andean worlds immediately overwhelmed their ill-equipped and unsuspecting victims by force of arms; they virtually exterminated those elements of the population that were the repositories of the indigenous cultures; they substituted themselves as an alien dominant minority, and they reduced the rural population to the status of an internal proletariat of the Western Christian society ...<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=aRmTMxO61m4C&pg=PA179&lpg=PA179&ots=TyCdfo3VXE&sig=E01vOp1lxi7EezYIOuZ9U-Jgk9g#PPA180,M1</ref>