COnquistadors
- it was a spanish term for the word conquerer
- were soldiers, explorers, and adventures servies of the spnish empire
- the most of famous are cortes and pizarro, but we will also look at coronado
- they were very obsessed with matter of honor and reputation
- spanish soldiers had a reputation for rowiness and duels were not uncommon.
Cortes
- born to a family of lower nobility
- his father was an infantry capitan for spanish army
- he is 2nd cousin oncer removed with pizarro
-conquered the aztec empire
- aztec thought he was quetzaost
Pizarro
- spansih conquistador
- con quered ithe incan civiation
only had 169 men 27 horses and 1 connon
got the defeated soldiers from the incan cilvil war to fight for his side
2nd cousin once removed
Reason why for conquering the mesoamerican people
- treasure
- poltheisthis
- human sacerifice was not well recived practice world wild at this point
- explorining and wanted the land to set up spanish colonies
- slaves
- thought a lot of the mesoamericans rituals and dances
issues with spliting the treasure
- the division of the treasures produced bloody conflicts, such as the one bewteen pizarro and almagro
- after peru fell to spain, francisco told almagro before they became enemies to go to the inca empirs northern city of ouito to clain it
- there fellow conquistador sebastian de belalcazar who had gone forth with out pizarro app
issues
- the arrival of pedro de alvarafo from mexico in search of inca gold further complicated the situation
IN lima in 1541 supporters od diego
- issues
Belalcazar was tried convicted and condermned for killing Robledo and other offenese pertaining to his involvement in the wars between armies of conquistadors
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