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Conquistadors
For God, Glory and Gold, was their rallying cry, but the conquest of much of the New World by Spanish conquistadors, driven by a mentality reminiscent of the medieval crusaders, was surely one of history's turning points, but even in the 16th century, questions were asked about the morality of their exploits.
2,209 Questions
What year did hernan Cortes get to Mexico?
He started his voyage to Mexico on 1518. He landed and founded the first Spanish city in the Mexican mainland on April 22, 1519. Such city is the present-day Mexican port of Veracruz.
Who was in the family of fransico Luis hector baron de carondelet?
Some of the Carondelet family can be found in the Portuguese records of the family of John da Sousa II along with de Rye, Poitiers and Hebert
What did hernan Cortes subdued?
Hernan Cortes -also known as Hernando Cortes- subdued the Aztecs, destroyed Tenochtitlan, built Mexico City, and claimed Mexico for the Spanish colony of New Spain. Hope I helped..
What year did Hernando Cortes discover Baja California?
California historian Kevin Starr says that Cortes and his men set sail from the west coast of Mexico across the Gulf of Mexico in 1533. To them it was an unknown sea. When they found it, they thought it was an island in the newly discovered Pacific.
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Which direction was Sebastian Vizcaino travelling when he began his voyage?
He traveled west. Hope this is helpful. How many voyages did Vizcaino go on?
Who did Moctezuma II think Cortés was?
Quetzalcoatl, usually depicted as a snake bird or plumed serpent, was the creator God of the Aztecs who set sail to the east after promising his people he would return.
Sentries were posted on the east coast to look out for his return, hence they were expecting him.
The Spaniards wearing bright breastplates and arriving from the East appeared to them to be the God returning.
Why did the Spanish make the Mayans become extinct?
They didn't. The Mayan's abandoned their cities 400 plus years before the Spanish arrived. The Spanish conquered the decendents of the ancient Maya and the Aztecs.
Spanish conquistadors conquered Mexico and most of?
Latin America (Mexico and Central America, the Caribbean and most of South America).
Cuba, or the Wet Indies. Then De Soto went on to Florida, and Cortes to Central America
Who was Francisco Vásquez de Coronado's older brother?
His older brother was Gonzalo Vasquez de Coronado.
What was the life of a conquistador?
History
The Renaissance & Elizabethan Age of Exploration to the New World was dominated by the Spanish Conquistadors. The success of the Spanish Conquistadors in acquiring monopolies on much of the Eastern spice trade and their expeditions to the New World brought great wealth and power to Spain. The new discoveries made by the Spanish Conquistadors brought untold riches in terms of gold and silver and spices and it also brought power and influence.
The Voyage
Travelling by ships in the 16th century was by no means luxurious. Crammed aboard on a carrack, the leading ship design of the age, conditions were brutal and excellent breeding grounds for disease. Sanitation was non-existent, faeces were collected in any nearby bucket and thrown overboard whenever it was of convince, often times sitting out for hours in the harsh heat
What motivated Hernando de soto?
Hernando de Soto was a famous Spanish explorer and conquistador. He was highly influenced by other conquerors of his day like Juan Ponce de Leon, and sought both fame and wealth through his explorations.
Hernan Cortez conquered the Aztec Empire in 1521, with the help of more than 200,000 Tlaxcalan allies -- who were bitter enemies of the Aztecs -- and a smallpox epidemic that decimated the Aztec population between 1519 and 1521. After the Fall of Tenochtitlan, central Mexico became part of the Spanish Empire, and Hernan Cortez became its first viceroy.
No. Also to those lands controlled by Portuguese and French colonists. Hence the name Latin America, as Spanish, French and Portuguese languages descend from the ancient Latin language.
Was there horses in south America before the conquistadors?
No, they were first brought by the Conquistadors and later by other Europian colonists.
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Answer: There were horses throughout the Americas up to the end of the Pleistocene Period. They became extinct at about the same time as woolly mammoths, American camels, dire wolves, sabre-toothed cats, stag-moose and woolly rhinoceros. So yes, there were horses in South America long before the conquistadors - but they were tiny prehistoric horses, about the size of a large dog, and they became extinct long before the Spaniards arrived.
What inspired de soto to lead an expadition to the west?
Greed. He was after the gold of the Seven Cities of Gold (Cibola).
