The Requerimiento (Spanish “demand,” “admonition”) was a document composed by the Spanish crown jurist Juan López de Palacios Rubios in 1513 on the legal status of Spanish rule in America.
The violent Conquista of the newly discovered territories in the New World by the Spanish conquistadors and the brutal treatment of the Indigenous population (the so-called Indios) by the first colonists on the one hand and the Spanish claim to be the bearers of civilization (Civiliz…