Spanish Conquistadors-Cortes Pizarro, Coronado
- Conquistadors
- spanish term for the word conquerer
- soldiers, explorers,and adventurers
- holy people
- most famous cortes and pizarro
- obsessed with honor and reputation
- rowdy and cocky
- duels were not uncommon
- Cortes
- born to a family of low nobility
- father was a infantry captan
- second consin one removed from pizarro
- conquered Aztec empire
- they thought he was Quetzalcoatl
- Pizzarro
- Spanish Conquistador
- conquered incan civilization
- didtn have very much stuff in battle
- got defeated soldiers from inca civil war to fight with him
- reasons why they conquered indians
- treasure
- fame
- not a fan of polytheistic
- didnt like human sacrifice
- slaves
- spanish colonies
- thought the indians were devil like
- issues with splitting the treasure
- division of the treasures produced bloody conflicts, such as the one between pizarro and almagro
- after peru fell to spain, francisco pizarro told almogro, before they became enemies, to go to the inco empire northern city of quito to claim it
- and they fought about it or something...
- more issues
- Alvarodo tried to take pizzaros money and gold, so he killed alvarodo
- so alcarodos son killed pizzaro to avenge his fathers death
- some other people got killed too.
- it all happened because pizzaro took over and incas and took their gold
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