Answer: At the beginning of the Spanish colonial period, the economy was based on exploitation, both of land and of Native Americans. During the first Spanish settlements, the system of encomienda was established, by which Spaniards were given title to American territory and ownership of the villages that they built there.
Weeeeeell, when Cassiopeia's hubris leads her to boast that Andromeda is more beautiful than the Nereids, Poseidon sends the sea monster Cetus to destroy Aethiopia as divine punishment. Andromeda is stripped and chained naked to a rock as a sacrifice to sate the monster, BUUUUT is saved from death by Perseus!
