Pizarro Verdict Kyle Houchin
The Age of Exploration was a time of new technology which led to the discovery of the New World. Kings sought wealth and power through the Americas. As a result, they sent conquistadors to conquer and spread Christianity. Pizarro was born into poverty in 1478. At the age of 24, he sailed for the New World in exploration for a new beginning. Pizarro took control of peru and in the process kill thousands of natives and killed their leader Atahualpa. Although there was plausible evidence that Francisco Pizarro was motivated to conquer the Inca because his king ordered him, the primary motives were greed for wealth and power.
King Charles I was proclaimed in the trial to have forced Pizarro to commit …show more content…
Before pizarro had the permission to take peru, he was already in Panama City, “one if its wealthiest and most powerful citizens”. So when pizarro when to the king he was already rich, and only sought more wealth for himself. Although some of the gold, the royal fifth, when to the king. Pizarro did pay his men after he took a fifth for himself. Which meant he got 18 percent of the gold and silver they collected. The way he got the gold was horrendous. Bartholome de las casas states, “The way they normally dealt with the native leaders and nobles was to tie them to a kind of griddle consisting of sticks resting on pitchforks driven into the ground and then grill them over a slow fire, with the result that they howled in agony and despair as they died a lingering death”. This is barbaric procedure was committed after the native leaders were forced to hand over their gold stashes. And not even the king of the Inca as safe. Atahualpa marched into Cajamarca with an army of 30,00 men, pizarro’s men unmercifully slaughtered them and took Atahualpa hostage. Atahualpa stated that he would, “fill a room with gold and two others with silver as a ransom”, and pizarro followed through but then killed him after. pizarro when above the king's orders and killed thousands of natives for the selfish motive of his personal …show more content…
Pizarro did send the royal fifth to the king, but then he keep a fifth to his own personal use and left some solders with low pay. He also sought his own personal power in his gain of wealth. Along with power from his personal wealth he took control of the Inca Empire and forced them to mine more gold and silver for “the king”, but mainly to gain more wealth for himself. Before he conquered the Inca Empire he had plenty of wealth and power in a spanish settlement. So In all Pizarro’s motives was entirely selfless and he deserves the death penalty for the destruction of the Inca Empire for his very selfless
The Age of Exploration was a time of new technology which led to the discovery of the New World. Kings sought wealth and power through the Americas. As a result, they sent conquistadors to conquer and spread Christianity. Pizarro was born into poverty in 1478. At the age of 24, he sailed for the New World in exploration for a new beginning. Pizarro took control of peru and in the process kill thousands of natives and killed their leader Atahualpa. Although there was plausible evidence that Francisco Pizarro was motivated to conquer the Inca because his king ordered him, the primary motives were greed for wealth and power.
King Charles I was proclaimed in the trial to have forced Pizarro to commit …show more content…
Before pizarro had the permission to take peru, he was already in Panama City, “one if its wealthiest and most powerful citizens”. So when pizarro when to the king he was already rich, and only sought more wealth for himself. Although some of the gold, the royal fifth, when to the king. Pizarro did pay his men after he took a fifth for himself. Which meant he got 18 percent of the gold and silver they collected. The way he got the gold was horrendous. Bartholome de las casas states, “The way they normally dealt with the native leaders and nobles was to tie them to a kind of griddle consisting of sticks resting on pitchforks driven into the ground and then grill them over a slow fire, with the result that they howled in agony and despair as they died a lingering death”. This is barbaric procedure was committed after the native leaders were forced to hand over their gold stashes. And not even the king of the Inca as safe. Atahualpa marched into Cajamarca with an army of 30,00 men, pizarro’s men unmercifully slaughtered them and took Atahualpa hostage. Atahualpa stated that he would, “fill a room with gold and two others with silver as a ransom”, and pizarro followed through but then killed him after. pizarro when above the king's orders and killed thousands of natives for the selfish motive of his personal …show more content…
Pizarro did send the royal fifth to the king, but then he keep a fifth to his own personal use and left some solders with low pay. He also sought his own personal power in his gain of wealth. Along with power from his personal wealth he took control of the Inca Empire and forced them to mine more gold and silver for “the king”, but mainly to gain more wealth for himself. Before he conquered the Inca Empire he had plenty of wealth and power in a spanish settlement. So In all Pizarro’s motives was entirely selfless and he deserves the death penalty for the destruction of the Inca Empire for his very selfless