Nine years after the Mixtón Rebellion, the Chichimeca War officially began. The conflict, however, was just a continuation of the rebellion, because the attacks never came to a halt. By this year though, the Chichimeca attacked so fiercely and constantly that the Spaniards had to declare it a war. Unlike the Mixtón rebellion, the Caxcanes were now allied with the Spanish, and it was primarily fought by the Zacatecos and Guachichiles against the S...
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Nine years after the Mixtón Rebellion, the Chichimeca War officially began. The conflict, however, was just a continuation of the rebellion, because the attacks never came to a halt. By this year though, the Chichimeca attacked so fiercely and constantly that the Spaniards had to declare it a war. Unlike the Mixtón rebellion, the Caxcanes were now allied with the Spanish, and it was primarily fought by the Zacatecos and Guachichiles against the Spanish and their Indian allies. The war took place in the current Mexican states of Zacatecas, Guanajuato, Aguascalientes, and Jalisco. This war is also known to have been the first frontier war.
In 1546 news spread like wildfire that great deposits of silver had been found around the Cerro de la Bufa hill in Zacatecas. The discoverer, Juan de Tolosa, was brought to the foot of the hill after a group of natives gave him a couple of pieces of ore. On September 8 of that same year the city of Zacatecas was founded. The dream of quick wealth...
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