The history can be art, but If history doesn’t want to be
annulled, it must be above all science because its first
objective it is not to please but to know and to expose the
development of the human life in some nation, religion or
institution. It will be able for the art to present with
bigger relief and charm the conclusions, but it is inapt to
formulate them.
Chronicler is the one that with any discernment or very
scarce, relates the external facts without paying bigger
attention to his truthfulness or double- dealing and without
deducing it causes and it effects. Following the most
thrashed route , the chronological one, the chronicler
carries only the materials and seats them at the same time
one with the others.
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Cover of conquest of Peru of
Xeres |
From the XVI century the European expansion is advanced.
The Spanish chroniclers penetrate in the indigenous life,
they take contact with the nature they study the customs
and they discover a new shade historiography for the
American life .
The conquerors relate the own facts next to what they have
seen and heard as Hernán Cortés , Francisco of Aguilar
and Alavar Núñez Head of Cow. The Settlers want to
perfect the history of the aboriginal towns.
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In
this way many different types of historians appeared. The
writer and soldier relates what he could see without
appealing to previous sources spontaneously. The humanist
historian interposes classic accents; the naturalistic
historian, science man or fond traveler introduces to the
universal knowledge the new species. The Indian also learns
how to write of the Spanish ones and he makes his own
history. Lastly, the learned mestizo gives birth light a
history like the Inca Garcilazo De la Vega and Felipe Guamán
of Ayala.
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Cover
of General History of Indians.
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The
General Histories of Indies that arise in that time, Juan
of Torqueamada in Mexico or Calancha in Peru will began to
particularizing and guiding to a certain territory and in
that particularization the heroism will make the national
historiography.
«it will continue»
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Self-portrait of Felipe Guamán
Poma of Ayala |
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