SPANISH CONQUISTADORS
- It is a Spanish term for the word conqueror
- Were soldiers, explorers, and adventurers at the service fo 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
- Obsessed with honor and reputation
- Spanish soldiers had a reputation for rowdiness, and duels were not uncommon
- They conquered them for
- Treasure
- Polytheistic
- Human sacrifice
- Exploring
- Slaves
- Devil like
- Cortes
- Born to a family of lower nobility
- His father was an infantry Capitan for Spanish army
- He is 2nd cousin once removed with Pizarro
- Conquered 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 was to fight for his side
- 2nd cousins once removed from Cortes
- Coronado
- Splitting the treasure
- The division of the treasures produced bloody conflicts, such as the one between Pizarro and Almagro
- After Peru fell to Spain, Francisco 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, un Hernando Pizarro’s orders
- In Lima in 1541 supporters of Diego Almagro II assassinated Francisco Pizarro
- Belalcazar in 1546 ordered the execution of Jorge Robledo, who governed a neighboring province in yet another land-related vendetta
- Belalcazar was tried, convicted and condemned for killing Robledo and other offenses pertaining to his involvement in the wars between armies of conquistadors and was then killed
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