Spanish Conquistadors
Cortez, Pizarro, Coronado
- Conquistadors
- its is a spanish term for the word conquerer
- were soldiers, explorers, and adventurers at the service of the spanish empire
- were very holy people who would generally pray before going to battle
- the most famous are Cortes and Pizarro, but there is also Coronado
- very obsessed with matters of honor and reputation
- spanish soldiers had a reputation for rowdiness, and duels were not uncommon
- Cortez
- born to a family of lower nobility
- his father was an infantry captain for spanish army
- he is the second 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, 27 horses and 1 cannon
- got the defeated soldiers from the incan civil war to fight for his side
- second cousins once removed with cortez
- Reasons for conquering the mesoamerican people
- treasure-gold, silver
- polytheistic-not a fan.
- human sacrifice was not well received at this point
- exploring and wanted the land to set up spanish colonies- very successful
- slaves
- thought a lot of the meso american's rituals and dances were devil like
- issues with splitting treasure
- the division of treasure produced bloody conflicts, such as one between pizarro an almagro
- after peru fell to spain, Pizarro told Almagro, before they became enemies, to go to the inca empire's northern city of quito to claim it
- their fellow conquistador Sebastian de Belalcazar, who had gone forth without Pizarro's approval, had already reached Quito
- 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 supporters of diego almagro II assassinated pizarro
- belalcazar ordered the execution of jorge robledo, who governed a neighboring province in yet another land related vendetta
- he was tried, convicted and condemned for killing robledo and other offenses pertaining to his involvement in the wars between armies of conquistadors and was killed
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