Conquistadors were Portuguese and Spanish adventurers. Conquistador comes from the Spanish word for conquerors. They settled quite a bit of the world in the 15th through 17th centuries for Portugal and Spain.
Spain.
Conquistadors came from all over Europe, but most were Spanish conquistadors from southwestern Spain.
Mercenaries are people who participate in a armed battle for pay. Mercenaries are people who will work for anyone who pays with military action, if its blowing up a building to assaination. USA has never (or never revealed it if they did) used a mercenarie for they will go through anything to get paid. Try playing mercenaries 2: world in flames for your own mercenarie expirence
New Spain
Conquistadors
Conquistadors were Portuguese and Spanish adventurers. Conquistador comes from the Spanish word for conquerors. They settled quite a bit of the world in the 15th through 17th centuries for Portugal and Spain.
Spain.
Conquistadors came from all over Europe, but most were Spanish conquistadors from southwestern Spain.
Spain let the conquistadors govern the lands they conquered.
Spain
Mercenaries are people who participate in a armed battle for pay. Mercenaries are people who will work for anyone who pays with military action, if its blowing up a building to assaination. USA has never (or never revealed it if they did) used a mercenarie for they will go through anything to get paid. Try playing mercenaries 2: world in flames for your own mercenarie expirence
New Spain
They were from Spain.
Mostly from Spain and Portugal
the conquistadors benefited by claiming land or by having slaves
the conquistadors benefited by claiming land or by having slaves