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Chapter 1 revisits the conquest of the New Kingdom of Granada. It introduces the reader to the colliding Indigenous and European worlds, framing this encounter in the new historiographies of conquest of Mesoamerica and the Andes. It argues that the conquest was not an early stage of military submission that was followed by settlement, but a much longer phase that shaped the interactions between the cold highlands of the Andes and the hot lowlands of the inter-Andean river valleys throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.