THE "RELIGION" THAT EUROPEANS BROUGHT TO THE NEW WORLD.

Pedro Cieza de Leon was the First Chronicler of Peru. He wrote about its History and Description of their Empire and the Land. His writings were found later in the Vatican Library.
He left his homeland when he was 16 moved by the accounts that the sailors  of the epoch brought about the New World. A world without diseases. A world where its people found a way of life totally different that the one in which this individual was brought for.
Cieza de Leon was born in Llerena, a Town in SouthEastern Extremadura, Spain, less than 60 mi (96 km) from Portugal, to a family of Jewish "conversos." Although recently converted from Judaism to Catholicism, the family enjoyed good social standing in the Region thanks to their "NetWorks" and "Business dealings."
In the time of the Arabs the Town of Llerena was called Ellerina, a place contested between Arabs and Christians. It was definitively occupied in 1243 by Pelayo Perez Correa, Master of the Order of St. James of the Sword, to whom Ferdinand III of Castille had entrusted the Reconquest of Sierra Morena.
The Order of St. James of the Sword, was founded in the 12th century. Its initial objective was "To Protect" the pilgrim of St. James' Way and to defend "Christendom."Entrance to the Order was not difficult at the beginning. Once the Re-conquest was finalized, an applicant who wished to join the Order had to prove in his first 4 last names that he, his parents, and his grandparents were of noble descent by blood and not by privilege, and had never worked in manual or industrial labor. The prospective member then had to live 3 months in the galleys and reside for a month in the Monastery to learn "The Rule."  The Order operated convents for friars and for nuns. Many classes of people were permanently disqualified from membership due to their origins.
 The Order's insignia is a red cross resembling a Sword, with the shape of a Fleur-de-lis on the hilt and the arms. The Sword represents the chivalrous character of the Apostle St. James and his martyr ways, since he was decapitated with a sword. Its shape originated in the era of The Crusades, when the Knights took with them Small Crosses with sharpened bottoms to stick them in the ground and carry out their daily devotions.
The Order was divided into several Provinces. The most important ones being Castille and Leon because of their number of Properties and Vassals.
At the Head of each Province there was a Military Commander with Headquarters in Segura de la Sierra, Castilla and Segura de Leon, Leon. The Province of Leon was divided into 2 parts, Merida and Llerena; in each of them there were various "Encomiendas," which were the most important internal subdivision of the Order. The "Encomiendas" behaved as local Units directed by a Knight Commander. It could place the Headquarters or residence of the Knight Commander in a Castle or Fortress or in a small Town and was the administrative or "Economic Center" in which the rents of the Estate and Properties relevant to that "Encomienda" were paid and received. The "Encomienda"had to support the Knight Commander and the other Knights living there, and to pay a "certain number" of Spearmen, who had to be "properly equipped" and take part in Militia Actions they were called to by their Master. All of them formed the "Army" retinue of the Order.
The Revenue of the Order came from Land, Pastures, Industries, Toll and "Right of Way," Taxes, and Tithe. The Order still operates under the Protection of the Spanish Crown.  (The English, Spanish, Austrian, and Russian Crowns belonged to the same family nucleus in which the Crowns were and still are protected by the intermarriage of them).
In the list of Grand Masters of the Order of James (Santiago), in the final incorporation into the Crown of Spain under the Reign of Charles I, we find "The Catholic Monarchs."
The Catholic Monarchs is the "join title" used in the writing of History for Queen Isabella I of Castille and King Ferdinand II of Aragon. They were both from the House of Trastamara and were 2nd cousins, being both descended from John I of Castille; on marriage they were given a "Papal Dispensation" to deal with consanguinity by Sixtus IV. They married on October 19, 1469, in the City of Valladolid; she was 18 years old and Ferdinand a year younger. This marriage united 2 Kingdoms under One Crown. The Title of "Catholic Monarchs" was bestowed by Pope Alexander VI in 1494, in "recognition" of their "defense of the "Catholic Faith" in their own way within their "Realms."
The "Catholic Monarchs" ordered the expulsion from their Lands of all Jews and muslims. People who converted to Catholicism were no subject to expulsion, but between 1480 and 1492 hundreds of those who had converted were accused of secretly practicing their original religion, then arrested, imprisoned, interrogated under torture, and in some cases burned to death. The last trial was held in 1818. Ten of thousands of Jews emigrated to other lands.
The "Catholic Monarchs" authorized the expedition of Christopher Columbus, who was given the name of "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" by the Monarchs as a way of giving him power to obtain new territories for them. The colonies Columbus established, and the Lands obtained by invasion in the Americas in later decades, generated an influx of wealth into the Unified Crowns of Europe, leading them to obtain more power and centralizing it in the Crown of Spain, from the end of the 16th century until the mid-seventeen century, not even a third of the length of time that the Incas hold their own power in the Tahuantinsuyo.
Isabella ensured "long-term" political stability by arranging strategic marriages for each of her 5 children. First-born daughter, Isabella, married Afonso of Portugal, forging important ties between these 2 neighboring countries, enduring peace and future alliances. Second daughter Joanna, married Philip the Handsome, the son of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, ensuring an alliance with a powerful, far-reaching territory with an eye of future political security. John, the only son, married Margaret of Austria, maintaining the ties with the Habsburg Dynasty, from which the catholic Monarchs relied heavily. Maria, the number 4 daughter, married Manue I of Portugal, strengthening the link forged by her elder sister's marriage. Catherine, the number 5 daughter, married Arthur, Price of Wales and heir to the throne of England, in 1501; he died at the age of 15 a few months later, and she married his younger brother shortly after he became Henry VIII of England in 1509.
Isabella died in 1504 and Ferdinand remarried Germaine of Foix in 1505. Germaine's father was John of Foix, Viscount of Narbonne and son of Queen Eleanor of Navarre. Germaine's mother, Marie of Orleans, was the sister of King Louis XII of France.
Charles V was the eldest son of Philip the Handsome and Joanna (Juana) the Mad in the Flemish Region of Belgium, City of Ghent, in the East Flanders Province, in 1500. In the late Middle Ages, Ghent became one of the largest and richest cities of Northern Europe. Archaeological evidence shows human presence in the Region of the confluence of Scheldt and Leie Rivers going back as far as the Stone Age and the Iron Age. The culture and courtly life of the Burgundian Low Countries were an important influence in his early life. Charles spoke several vernacular languages: fluent in French, and Flemish, later adding an "acceptable"Castilian Spanish required by the Castilian Court as a condition for becoming a King of Castile. Also he spoke a decent German, though he never spoke it as well as French. During his reign, the territories in the Americas were considerable extended and incorporated into his Empire. Charles was convinced of his divine mission to become the Leader of Christendom, and saw Islam as a significant threat. Charles suffered from an enlarged lower jaw, a deformity that became considerably worse in later Habsburg generations. It was caused by the family's long history of inbreeding, which was commonly practiced in royal families to maintain dynastic control of Territory. He struggled to chew his food properly and consequently experienced bad digestion for much of his life. As a result, he usually ate alone. He also suffered from epilepsy and was seriously afflicted with gout, caused by a diet consisting mainly on red meat. In his retirement, he was carried around the Monastery of St. Yuste in a sedan chair. A ramp was constructed to allow him easy access to his rooms.
He held so many titles that because of his illnesses he was forced to abdicate to many of them.
He was member of the Order of St. James and was also granted membership to the Order of the Garter,
founded in 1348, the highest Order of Chivalry in England. It is dedicated to the image and arms of Saint George, England's patron saint.