On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan <che...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian > <sur...@hserus.net> wrote: >> Pizzarro's brother Gonzalo did try - and defeated and killed a viceroy that >> the king sent to replace him. > > Rebellion to form a feudal state is some thing else - we are talking > in hypotheticals here - the reality is the monarchy prevailed - > however I can imagine a scenario where better educated leaders with > access to resources of a state 9 times the size of Spain could have > worked to gain the support of the locals, the mulattoes, the criollos, > the mestizos and other mixed peoples and establish a state where > democratic freedom of the self was the rule.
they didnt have sufficient numbers ....they were significantly outnumbered by slaves and tainos. Slaves and tainos had many independent city states (short lived and long lived ) . the keyword is slaves though - certainly not a recipe for contemplating democratic rule.
