Explain development of social hierarchies from 1450-1750

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Assignment:

According to both oral tradition and official versions, a beautiful Mexica woman appeared to Juan Diego and speaking to him in Nahuatl, asked him to tell the bishop that her name was La Virgen de Guadalupe and that she wanted a church built on Tepeyac. When Juan Diego was not believed, as proof of his story, she instructed him to fill his tilma (cape) with roses and take them to the Catholic bishop yet again with instructions to build a church on that same site. When Juan Diego opened his cloak to show the bishop the flowers, instead of roses, the image that we know of today as Our Lady of Guadalupe was miraculously imprinted upon the cotton fabric. That tilma is now enshrined at the Catholic Basilica in Mexico City.

The devout Catholic will tell you that Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared to a peasant by the name of Juan Diego in a demonstration of faith for the conquering Spaniards. Ask a mestizo or indigenous person and they will tell you that Our Lady of Guadalupe is really Coatlaxopeuh, another name for Earth Mother Tonantzin, to whom offerings were made on that same hill of Tepeyac hundreds of years before the arrival of the Spaniards. They will tell you that Tonantzin/Coatlaxopeuh appeared to Cuauhtlatoatzin to inspire hope in a people who were being oppressed by the Spanish and, later when the Church acknowledged Our Lady of Guadalupe as the Patroness of Mexico, to allow the people to continue to honor her in safety. To many people, she is not either/or, but rather one: Tonantzin Guadalupe.

Source: A Bridge of Light Between Cultures by Griselda Alvarez Sesma a Mestiza of Yaqui/Mexica heritage born in Baja California (Mexico). Adjunct professor at Arizona Western College in Yuma, Arizona. 2008

A. Identify ONE specific example of syncretism that is present in the above reading.

B. Explain ONE technological development in maritime exploration that led to cultural exchange that is present in the above reading.

C. Explain ONE way that the development of social hierarchies from 1450-1750 are present in the above reading.

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