Birth of a New Culture
  A room is devoted to the decisive figures representing the new, common culture. We choose Fr. Bartolomé de las Casas for his importance in the debate on legitimacy of the wardship to which the native peoples had been subjected, with different judgements on the matter in the comments we reproduce from Jiménez Fernández and Menéndez Pidal. Other figures are selected for their literary merit, as in the case of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Rubén Darío and Pablo Neruda; or due to their political vision of Ibero-America as a federation of united peoples. We also mention the case of Azahara, to show the fascination that America has exercised on Europe.
  As a commentary on the panels, texts have been selected from the
protagonists themselves, and also from qualified 20th-century commentators such as Marañón and Menéndez Pidal. The selection of authors includes the Indian’s view of an event that produced such a profound transformation of the world. Texts and drawings from chronicles such as those of Santa Cruz Pachacuti, the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and Guamán Poma, are shown between those of the writers of Spanish chronicles such as Agustín de Zárate and Bernal Díaz.