They were 100% practical - and 100% ruthless.
Only by lying, cheating, and showing no hesitation to murder, were they able to conquer civilizations while they were hopelessly outnumbered.
Morality and ethics are a hindrance to those who seek to conquer.
The generic term for Europeans who led expeditions to the western hemisphere was explorer, but most were Spanish and called conquistadors
The Spanish conquistadors led by Hernan Cortez.
The Spanish King offered grants to the people whose led expeditions.
Spanish conquistadors, led by Hernan Cortes.
In 1521, after the Fall of Tenochtitlan before Spanish conquistadors led by Hernan Cortes.
the spanish conquistadors took over the aztec empire. the aztecs died mostly from the disease (smallpox) the spanish brought from europe
The Aztecs had a lot of enemies and when the Spanish conquistadors arrived to Mexico the Aztec enemies were more than happy to help the Spanish destroy the Aztecs.
All military expeditions led by Spanish conquistadors (1529-1534) failed, but allowed them to find that California was a peninsula, and that it was lightly inhabited by nomadic tribes known as pericu, guaycura and cochimi. The "conquest" of Baja California was performed by jesuit missionaries, who slowly but steadily, began the conversion of the nomadic population between 1690 and 1767 through a network of missions, some of which stand to this day.
he led two verey big expeditions but he went on several expeditions
Pizarro
The Aztec civilization was discovered by Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés in the early 16th century. Cortés and his men arrived in Mexico in 1519 and encountered the Aztec empire, led by Emperor Moctezuma II. The ensuing clash between the Spanish and the Aztecs eventually led to the downfall of the Aztec civilization.
Francisco Pizarro. However, the Incan empire was already declining from disease brought by previous Spanish conquistadors.