Conquistador

The letter from Cortes and the Florentine Codex both describe the same event but from different perspectives. In an essay of approximately 600 words, compare and contrast these two documents. You could examine the history portrayed in the documents, different perspectives, language, tone, etc. Be sure to quote directly from the text and cite appropriately. To begin with, the letter from Cortes and the Florentine Codex both are describing the same event. The only difference is the perspective. Hernan Cortes was a Spanish Conquistador who caused the fall of the Aztec Empire by conquering Tenochtitlan, present day Mexico City. He took their leader Moctezuma captive, and this led to a massive riot that ended with a lot of death. Although, the Florentine Codex covers the same event it has a totally different tone and view of things. While both the letters from Cortes and the Florentine codex cover the same event no one see’s everything in the same way. First, despite the documents of Cortes letter and the Florentine Codex being the same event, the Codex mentions the Spaniards before the reach Tenochtitlan, while Cortes letter start from where he…

JOHN CABOT John Cabot was a good man.He discovered a new land.John did other stuff to.He died and was sad because he was a good explorer.John Cabot had a wonderful family and 3 kids and a wife. John Cabot is from Italy.John explored in 1497.He found a Nova scotia and thought Asia Silver and gold,salmon.John had three sons and their names are Sancto,Sebastian,Ludovico Cabot.John crossed North Atlantic Related America North and Nova Scotia. John Cabot thought America was China like Columbus.Johns…

Conquistador "colonel" Francisco Pizarro born 1476 in Trujillo, Spain. And died in June 26, 1541 as a very wealthy man. The area he was born in was stricken with poverty. His father Gonzalo Pizarro an Italian nobleman was a very poor farmer in Spain and he was also an captain. His mother Francisca González come from a humble heritage as a maid In the Pizarro Household. "Gonzalo and Francisca were Never married." Francisco…

Brief reasons of important of Francisco Pizarro in Literature Francisco Pizarro was born around 1474 in Trujillo, Spain. He was many things in his life time such as solder, conquistador, and explorer for Spain. His impact in the finding of the Americas and his bloody conquest influenced the literature not only back then, but to this time period as well. Francisco Pizarro was born to a poor hidalgo (small landholder of petty nobility), and never learned to read. This didn’t stop him from being…

In Song of the Hummingbird, the book describes the story of an indigenous woman named Huitzitzilin who explains her story to a Spanish monk. The Spanish monk finds her story to be fascinating because it is not what he was taught back in Spain. He sympathizes with her and begins to see the conquest through her perspective. She details the events that her people endured at the hands of Cortes and his Spanish conquerors. The text is organized by chapters as Huitzitzilin reiterates her story to…

Francisco Pizarro was born in 1476 to a lower class family. His father, Captain Gonzalo Pizarro, was a poor farmer while his mother, Francisca Gonzalez, came from a simpler home. At a young age, Francisco tended to his father’s swineherd, and grew up without learning how to read. Born in Trujillo, Spain, Pizarro grew up in areas riddled with poverty. Whilst in his mid-thirties, Francisco herd of the riches of the New World and sought to be go find them. In 1510, Francisco Pizarro left Spain with…

One reason for this was the enforcement of Spanish rule, and the dependency the conquest had on the Native peoples; Restall explains that “Spanish settlers depended upon native communities to build and sustain their colonies with tribute, produce and labor” (128). Being a conquistador meant striving to receive an encomienda, “a grant of native tribute and labor” - and this was the ultimate form of slavery for the Indigenous peoples. Furthermore, the second reason for the exploitation of the very…

Francisco Vázquez de Coronado was one of many Spanish conquistadors during the age of exploration. Born in Salamanca, Spain in about 1510, he was the younger of him and his brother. Because of him being the younger of two brothers, Coronado was not set to inherit any land or money from his family. Coronado decided to become an explorer of the new world to make a name for himself. Coronado initially traveled to New Spain, as Mexico was named by the Spanish, with the viceroy of New Spain,…

Francisco Pizarro was born in 1474 in Trujillo, Spain. He died in 1541. Pizarro represented the country of Spain. He explored from 1510-1541. Pizarro was a Spanish conquistador. His goal was to explore, conquer, and accumulate wealth in the New World for Spain. Pizarro came from a poor family. He didn’t receive a good education, and he never learned to read or write. He began working at a young age as a swineherd. This is someone who raises and takes care of pigs. As a teenager Pizarro…

were able to cut off the Spanish supply line to the coast and forced them to send for help as they barricaded themselves in the ruins of the ancient city of Chichén Itzá. Months passed, but no reinforcements came to the aid of the trapped Spaniards. Montejo the Younger attempted an all out assault against the Maya to break their siege and lost 150 of his few remaining forces. He was forced to abandon the city of Chichén Itzá under cover of darkness in 1534. By the year 1535, Montejo was…