The document profiles several individuals from the Portuguese and Spanish colonies in America during the colonial period. It discusses Antonio de Gouveia, a famous humanist educator from the Renaissance who had controversies over Aristotle. It also profiles Catarina de Monte Sinai, a nun from Brazil who was an entrepreneur, Francisco Baquero an Argentinian shoemaker who tried to form unions, Isabelle Moctezuma the daughter of the Aztec ruler Moctezuma who married a Spaniard, Diego Vasicuio a heretical priest from Peru who created his own religion, and Miguel Hernandez a leader of the Mulatto people in Mexico who was persistent and smart.

1. The People of the Portuguese
and Spanish Colonies in America
Matthew McHolland
History 140
Professor Arguello

2. ***Antonio de Gouveia***
• He was known to be a humanist and a famous educator during the
renaissance.
• He is also known for his controversy with Pierre de la Ramee about
Aristotle.
• His work mainly deal with law as well as poetry.
• He spent a lot of time editing and translating classical sources in search
of the original meaning.
• He was accused of being an atheist by John Calvin, and he eventually
returned to Catholic Orthodoxy.

3. ***Antonio de Gouveia***
• He was born in 1528 and he lived his life with a Christina
family in Terceira.
• He spent his youth in Azores, when the nine islands of
the archipelago were already the nerve center of the
Atlantic shipping.
• He was vanished from Portugal.
• Sadly, he spent most of his adulthood life in prison.

4. ***Catarina de Monte Sinai***
• Catarina was one of the few women who actually was part of the
Desterro Convent in Bahia.
• Her parents were from Brazil.
• She died in 1758.
• She was a very religious person who devoted her entire life to her
savior.
• She was a very smart person, for she knew how to make money.
• One of the many ways that she learned how to make money and
sustain herself was by renting houses.

5. ***Catarina de Monte Sinai***
• She was pretty much an entrepreneur.
• She was granted with the opportunity to grow up in a
wealthy family. In other words, she was able to succeed
because her family had money. As a result, she was able to
become a nun.
• One of her flaws was that she thought she could outsmart
archbishop by not letting him know about her business.
• She died without having the chance to give her belongings
away.

6. ***Francisco Baquero***
• He was an Argentinian man who spend his life making
shoes. While researching this character, the first thing
that I found out about him is that he was a shoe maker.
• He was certainly a mestizo.
• Throughout his life he tried his best to organize unions
but he was never successful, for every time that he
tried to form a union, the union was rapidly rejected.

7. ***Francisco Baquero***
• He was elected to represent a union.
• He was very concern with the racial discrimination that
occurred during his time.
• He was very unhappy because he did not believe in
segregation; he truly believed that segreation was unjust.

8. ***Isabelle Moctezuma***
• She was de daughter of Moctezuma II.
• She was a princess.
• She was married to Atlixcatzin, who was
supposedly designated by Moctezuma to be
his successor as huey tlatoani.
• She was instructed to Christianity and she
ended up marrying an Spaniard.

9. ***Isabelle Moctezuma***
• She married Alonso de Grado in June 1526.
• Isabel became a Christian but she never learned to
read or write; she remained illiterate.
• She died in 1550 and her estate was large. She had
acquired personal possessions during her marriage
with Spaniards.
• She was known to be generous and thoughtful.
• She was the great success of the assimilation of
Spanish and Indian.

10. ***Diego Vasicuio***
• He was a priest for the Catholic church.
• His main job consisted in converting natives to
Catholics. It was a very hard process. Nevertheless, he
managed to do it.
• The problem about converting natives was that he
created his own religion. He said that he was
converting them into Catholics but the reality is that he
had his own religion. As a result, he was eventually
charged with heresy.

11. ***Diego Vasicuio***
• He was very shy.
• He lived from 1580-1670s.
• He was from Southern Peru.
• He created a cult.
• His cult was very similar to the Catholic
religion.

12. ***Miguel Hernandez***
• He was from Mexico.
• He actually he lived in Queretaro.
• Miguel had many goals in his life, but the most
that he focused the most consisted in living a
prosperous life even under arduous
circumstances.
• He was extremely persistent and because of this
trait, he was able to go really far in his life.

13. ***Miguel Hernandez***
• Miguel became leader of the Mulatto because
of his ability to interact with others and
because he was extremely smart. He knew
that Queretaro was a very small town rich in
agriculture, and he used this to his advantage.