Juan Ponce De Leon’s Case Juan ponce De Leon started his 2nd expedition in 1513 with his crew in search of the fountain of youth. When he arrived to Florida he killed over 500 native Americans in the form of self defense. He has been charged with 2nd degree murder over a 500 count. When Juan Ponce De Leon first arrived the native Americans would not share water, food and shelter with him and his crew. They then shot him in the leg with a poisonous arrow.…
First governor of Puerto Rico by the appointed by the crown. He was also the first Spanish explorer to explore Florida he was known as a conquistador or conquerors. Believed to be born 1460 san Tervas de compos, Spain but there are no records of it. 1506…
The Conquistador’s Journey In the spring of 1527, five Spanish ships left their home for the New World. If they can predict their future, they would have not done that. It was a 300 man crew, but by the fall of 1532, there would only be four. Cabeza de Vaca was one of the four.…
Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish explorer or conquistador who left Spain to colonize the New World in 1527. He got shipwrecked near what is now Tampa Bay, FL and got lost. They decided to make rafts and try to sail to Mexico City, but got pushed ashore in a hurricane near modern day Galveston, TX. He was then an Indian slave for four years. After that he finally escaped and walked to Mexico City.…
After proving himself, although he had cruel ways in some instances, he became Cortés's assistant and right hand man He was put in charge of Tenoctitlán, which is now called Mexico City, when Cortés had to go fight off Pánfilo de Narváez . While he was left in charge, the Aztecs were having a festival. He didn't want them to revolt, so he sent his men to start the fight instead. Thousands of unarmed and harmless people were killed that night. The Aztecs were mad because many of their nobles and chiefs were killed, and their things were stolen.…
In 1485, Cortés was born to a Spanish family of minor nobility “in the Castilian province of Extremadura, in the small city of Medellin” (Minster). At the age of fourteen, Cortés was sent by his parents “to study at the University of Salamanca”…
So people were willing to go over to the Americas in search of easy riches like Cortes did. Nobody got as lucky as him and the only person to come close was Francisco…
A land they wanted to scout to find gold and other valuable resources. His crew set sail to the new land in Seville, Spain in 1527 and brought 5 ships with 400 men with him to the journey and had a conquistador named Panfilo de Narvaez. Their ships crashed on November, 1528 on the coast of Texas where we now call call Galveston Island, TX. They tried to find a way to get to Mexico City and took hollowed out horse legs as water canisters.…
The interaction between the explorers from Western Europe and the indigenous people of North and South America was shaped by the different cultures and beliefs that each come from. Over the course of several hundreds of years, many different explorers from Western Europe made the voyage to the Americas. Whether they were exploring the different bodies of land in the search of riches, or conquering the indigenous people that resided there, the attitudes of the men that traveled there were shaped by their own beliefs and values that were instilled in them by their home country. This is evident in Hernan Cortes’s account of the Aztec Empire. Sent by the Spanish monarch Charles V, Cortes was meant to find treasure and wealth and bring it back to Spain.…
but he managed everything in an order and the people of this city were happy to their order. Thus, it was so surprising to Cortes he never saw a ruler like him in Europe. That’s why he mentioned him in his letters to…
The New World had many encounters, but two remarkable interactions with natives and explorers are that of Christopher Columbus and Hernando Cortes. Christopher Columbus was on orders from the King of Spain to travel a new route to find India and introduce them to a new religion. In 1492, Columbus reached what he thought was India; however, he was mistaken so now it is known as the West Indies because of this belief. At the beginning of the 16th century, Cortes set sail for Meso-America also for Spain and now the area he explored is now known as Mexico. Although the native groups that these famous explorers encountered are very diverse, there are similarities in their interactions with the explorers.…
Hernando Cortés also known as Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro is an explorer and a conquistador. Cortés is infamous for eliminating the amazing empire of the Aztecs. Cortés after brutally murdering the Aztecs, he claimed their native land, Mexico, for Spain. Although can Cortés be considered a hero and a villain, but can he be both? Hernando Cortés was born in Medellín, Spain in 1485.…
After Columbus' arrival to the western hemisphere, Cuba became a Spanish colony. Retaliations against Spain had been happening for some time in Cuba, as the misrule was fueling the tension (Document 4). As war erupted between Cuba and Spain in the mid-1890, many Americans saw the tension as an opportunity for the United States to expand…
Fall of Aztec Empire For many years now, historians have pondered upon the many reasons for the fall of the Aztec Empire. There have been many factors that played into the fall of the Empire, such as the diseases plaguing the population, the Spaniard’s technological advantages, religious rivalries, alliances, and the list goes on. But to focus on two of the major contributors, this essay will focus on the effects of European diseases on Mexico, and the impact alliances between the Spaniards and the Tlaxcala people had on Tenochtitlan. To begin our observations, we will delve into the life of a man named “Hernan Cortés”. Hernan Cortés was a Spanish Conquistador, and one of the driving forces in the fall of the Aztec Empire through the capture of Tenochtitlan and of the then leader Motecuhzoma II.…
In 1519, Spanish explorers, under the leadership of Hernán Cortés, set foot on what is now modern-day Mexico in search of gold and land in the Aztec Empire. Although the Spanish initially had no intentions (or orders from Cuban governor Diego Velásquez for whom they made the voyage) to colonize the Aztec Empire, they sought to communicate with the inhabitants and spread their Christian faith. However, the end of 1521 saw the mighty Aztec Empire practically cease to exist, its emperor Montezuma II join the many victims of the conquest, and the survivors put under the rule of the Spanish. A variety of factors came into play regarding the Spanish’s ability to conquer this mighty empire, including the ability to communicate verbally, the religious beliefs of both peoples, and the devastating effect of disease on the Aztec empire.…