"I implore you to recognize the Church as a lady and in the name of the Pope take the King as lord of this land and obey his mandates. If you do not... with the help of God I shall enter your land against you with force, and shall make war on you in every way I can, and I shall subject you to the yoke and obedience of the Church and of His Majesty, and I shall take your wives and children and make them slaves." — The Spanish Requerimiento, drafted by Juan López de Palacios Rubios (1513), read to Indigenous peoples by conquistadors
The Requerimiento's claim that the Pope could grant lordship over Indigenous lands rested on which earlier act?
- Acheck_circle
Pope Alexander VI's bulls of donation (1493) and the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)
- B
The Edict of Nantes recognizing Huguenot rights
- C
The English Statute of Uses regulating land conveyances
- D
The Council of Trent's reforms of Catholic doctrine
Explanation
Alexander VI's 1493 bulls and the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas allocated newly "discovered" non-Christian lands to Spain and Portugal, supplying the legal-theological basis for the Requerimiento.