Educative Impact of the Contract for the Conquer and Creation of the Venezuelan Government

Abstract

This article describes and analyzes the contract for the conquer and creation of the Venezuelan government subscribed between Carlos V and the Welser's: 1528-1556; in order to determine its extend and educative impact in the first phase of the foundational process of Maracaibo, current capital of Zulia State Venezuela. It focuses on the established rights in the contract and identifies the absence of educational rights to create scholar educative forms and the role of catholic religion in the conversion of indians, and then reduction to slavery. The author analyzes the social vision of the contract in its political, economic and cultural dimension and in its relations with the thinking and historic social contexts prevailing in the XVI century. It brings ideas and knowledge to to reconstruct the educational process of the province of Maracaibo in the Hispanic domination period.