to get gold and riches
My textbook says because although Fransisco Pizarro (Spanish explorer and conquerer) had only 167 men, he had horses and and firearms. The Incas lacked leadership because the Spanish executed the emperor. Because they had no leadership, the Inca empire fell apart- right into Spanish hands.
Because they had more acvanced weapons and the Aztecs though they were gods and they took advantage of that also they exposed them to many spanish illness' which took the lifes of many of the aztecs. the Inca's however faught very well and were able to keep pizzaro and his men out of Peru for quite some time but eventually the spanish succeeded and took over. and pizzaro became the new leader of peru when it was finally colonized. they also forced their religion on them which is why most Latin Americans are Catholic.
Cortez was thought to be a returned emperor from the Aztec past that promised to come back one day and return to his thrown. With this belief the Aztecs didn't put up as much of a fight as they otherwise would have. Cortez also received support from other neighboring tribes.
Later Conquistadors defeated the Inca by tricking their emperor into a special banquet where they ambushed him. After the ambush the other Inca having seen their leader seized actually gave up the fight. They used the emperor by making him give orders to his people.
Because they had strength and power. The Indians did not have the European guns unlike the spanish. The Spanish soldiers often did not show mercy to the Indians of the New Found World.
The Spanish soldiers made effective use of their military technology against the Aztecs.
Reasons for Aztec and incan conquer: 1. The tribes were quite primitive and so was their war material! 2. The spanish brought diseases that the incans and Aztecs had never heard of! 3. The Aztecs and incans believed that their gods would protect them, The spanish smashed the gods!
The Spanish were able to conquer the Aztecs because the Aztecs were not very advanced in technology, where as the Spanish had technology like swords, armor, things that the Aztecs didn't have then. So the Spanish took advantage of this and terrorized the Aztecs completely, killing thousands, and taking remainders as slaves. Another answer: The spanish soldiers made effective use of their military technology against the aztecs
They wanted the gold from Aztecs so they needed a reason to kill them and take their treasures
They did not conquer Greece. They had incorporated the Greek city-states in Asia Minor into their empire, but their attempts to bring the rest of the Greek world under Persian control failed. The reason they wanted to control the mainland cities was to stop the Greek cities creating disruption in their empire with their constant fighting amongst each other, which spilled over into territory ruled by Persia.
The Spanish soldiers made effective use of their military technology against the Aztecs.
Reasons for Aztec and incan conquer: 1. The tribes were quite primitive and so was their war material! 2. The spanish brought diseases that the incans and Aztecs had never heard of! 3. The Aztecs and incans believed that their gods would protect them, The spanish smashed the gods!
because of a dieses they did not have a cure for
Spanish conquistadors looked for God, gold and glory.They found it on Mexico, explaining the reason why it eventually became the most valued overseas territory of the Spanish Empire.
The Spanish were able to conquer the Aztecs because the Aztecs were not very advanced in technology, where as the Spanish had technology like swords, armor, things that the Aztecs didn't have then. So the Spanish took advantage of this and terrorized the Aztecs completely, killing thousands, and taking remainders as slaves. Another answer: The spanish soldiers made effective use of their military technology against the aztecs
They wanted the gold from Aztecs so they needed a reason to kill them and take their treasures
So they could take all the wealth from Mexico and bring it back to Spain. A reason the invasion happened was because the Spanish, after getting the Moors out of Iberia, had no where else to send it's elite army and all the other countries would have been hard to conquer.
to steal their gold and ruled the people
The arrival of Spanish conquistadors, who brought diseases for which the American Natives didn't have any immunity. The worst offender was smallpox, which wreaked havoc on the Aztec Empire, and is the true culprit of the fall of Tenochtitlan at the hands of Hernan Cortes and his men.
Disease brought by Spanish conquistadors, such as smallpox. Native Americans didn't have immunity and died by the millions.
Didn't Spain took over or something like thatAnswerWhen the Spanish conquistadors came to South America, they brought diseases such as smallpox with them that the Inca had no immunity to. Because their gene pool was small, disease could literally wipe out entire populations and it spread like wildfire.
The Spanish had an advantage in using horses, cannons and guns against the native tribes. Not only were these more effective in war, but since the natives had never seen anything like these weapons, manage to significantly frighten the natives. However, the biggest reason is disease. The Spanish brought smallpox over to a population with no immunity and was sufficiently weakened or eliminated for the Spanish to conquer. This is the reason that the Spanish began importing slaves from Africa to work plantations, because the native populations had been virtually wiped out.