ABSTRACT
The trauma of occupation struck all those peoples who, in order not to be exterminated, were forced to submit. Still the shock has not been equally felt everywhere. It has been more violent in the Americas because, due to their isolation from the rest of the world for thousands of years, the Indians were not aware of the existence of other peoples. They were terrified by those beings with a “human bearing, riding unknown monsters”. They did not know how to comport themselves in regard to those invaders, whether to form an alliance with them, or to fraternize with them, or to show them hostility. But it was the vision of fright that prevailed over all experiments that were attempted.
