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[4th ashton :)]

Spanish Conquistadors

• It is a Spanish term for the work conquered
• Were soldiers, explorers, and adventures at the service of the Spanish Empure
• Were very holy people who would generally pray before going to battle
• The most famous are Cortes and Pizarro

Conquistadors

• They were obsessed with matters of honor and reputation
• Spanish soldiers had a reputation or rowdiness

Cortes

• Born to a family of lower nobility
• His father was in infantry Capitan for Spanish army
• He is 2^nd cousin once removed with Pizarro
• Conquered the Aztec Empire
• Aztec thought he was Quetzalcoatl

Pizarro

• Spanish conquistador
• Conquered the Incan civilization
• Only had 168 men and 27 horses and 1 cannon
• Got the defeated soldiers from the Incan civil war to fight for his side
• 2^nd cousin once removed from Cortes

reasons why for conquering the Mesoamerican people

• treasure (Gold, Silver)
• polytheistic-not a fan. Spanish Inquisition ring a bell
• human sacrifice was not a well received practice world wide at this point
• exploring and wanted the land to set up Spanish colones-very successful
• slaves
• thought a lot of the Mesoamerican's rituals and dances were "devil like"

issues with splitting the treasure

• the division of the treasures produced bloody conflicts, suck as the one between Pizarro and Almagro
• after Peru fell to Spain, Francisco Pizarro told Almago, beofore they became enemies, to go to the Inca Empires northern city of Quito to claim it
• their fellow conquistador Sebastian de Belalcazar

issues

• the arrival of Pedro de Alvarado from Mexico in search of Inca gold further complicated the situation for Almagro and Belalcazar
• Alvarado left south America in exchange for monetary compensation from Pizarro
• Almagro was executed on 1538, under Pizarro's orders
• in Lima in 1541
• Belalcazar in 1546 ordered the execution of Jorge Robledo, who government a neighboring province in yet another land-related vendetta
• Belalcazar was tired, convicted an condemned for killing Robledo and other offenses pertaining to his involvement in the wars between armies of conquistadors and was then killed