Spanish Conquistadors Cortes, Pizarro and Coronado
Conquistadors
- It is a Spanish term for the word conqueror
- 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 we will also look at Coronado.
- they were obsessed with matters of honor and reputation
- Spanish soldiers had a reputation for rowdiness, and duels were not uncommon.
Cortes
- Born to family of lower nobility
- his father was an infantry Captain for Spanish army.
- He is 2nd cousin once removed with Pizarro
- conquered the Aztec army
- Aztec thought he was Quetzalcoatl
Pizarro
- Spanish Conquistador
- conquered the Incan civilization
- only has 168 men 27 horses and 1 cannon
- got the defeated soldiers for the Incan civil war to fight for his side
- 2nd cousin
Reasons why for conquering the Mesoamerican people
- Treasure (gold ,silver)
- Polytheistic- not a fan.
- Human Sacrifices was not a well received practice world wide at this point
- slaves
- spanish colonies
- thought the indians were devil like
Issues
the arrival of Pedro de Alvanado from Mexico on search of Inca gold further complicated the situation for Almago and Belalcazar.
- 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
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