Conquistador

The Spanish Conquistadors wanted to find wealth, gold and silver, and people. In 1519 the Spanish Conquistador Hernan Cortes walked into ‘the new world’ in Tenochtitlan, the Aztec Capital. Many of the European Conquistadors were second born sons consequently Hernan was properly second or third born son as the laws in Spain at the time considered that the first born sons would get all of the father's land and wealth. “Second sons of wealthy nobles, afforded an education but no rights to inherit…

During the age of the conquistadors it was a race to see who could find and collect all of the land they could. Gaining new parts of the new world was did not only affect the people already living on the land it affected the people who were conquering the land. European colonization of the americas shaped global economies and societies by creating a drastic decline in the native population, generating new goods for overseas trade, and by creating new mixed cultures. When the spanish found the…

Spanish Conquistadors and the Fall of the Aztecs The fall of the Aztec Empire was due to the determination and destruction of the Spaniards. They did not respect the Natives’ religions at all. They almost destroyed all of the Natives’ culture, and now we know very little about Natives. The Spaniards’ greed and obsession with power, this was their main motivation to conquer the Aztec Empire. The Aztecs’ religion is what got them into the most trouble. They sacrificed humans for their Gods, which…

Hernan Cortes and his conquistadors gained much from their strategic and brutal acquisition of Mexico. By conquering the Aztec civilisation, the Spanish were able to expand their empire, spread Christianity further and secure unimaginable riches. However, their arrival brought devastating impacts on the indigenous population such as disease, slavery and destruction of culture. In the 12th century, a Native American tribe called the Aztecs had moved into the Valley of Mexico in search of fertile…

reaction to them decided whether or not the settlement would succeed. Looking at the English colonies: New England, Chesapeake, the Middle Colonies, South Carolina and the Indies, we can see the same three things apply. The Spanish sent over Conquistadors to the New World and their job was to capture the Indians and place them into hard labor so that they could send resources back to Spain to be sold. The surrounding area was filled with Indians because of the fertile lands. Shortly…

The story of Spanish conquistador Don Juan de Oñate, like most historical figures requires that you examine his impact from multiple points of view. Juan de Oñate viewed from the side of Hispanic Americans is that he was a fearless explorer, irreplaceable in the history of their people in the region and the building of the American West. For the indigenous peoples, Juan de Oñate was not only representative of Spain, its explorers, and all of the atrocities committed, but also for being…

not. The town’s banker, Julio Morales, the novel’s antagonist, has lived the majority of his seventy-eight years with the goal of being El Conquistador de Corazones (The Conqueror of Hearts). Through this quest, he has left many battered hearts and spirits in his wake. The writing focuses on certain individuals whose lives have been touched by El Conquistador, and now each attempts to deal with that past.…

and the death of the pagan gods that people originally believed in. These events in our history were all reflected in many works of literature such as Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” and Rosario Cruz Lucero’s “Death of Fray Salvador Montano, Conquistador of Negros” which both showed colonialism under the Europeans but each presenting a different aspect. The European colonization began in the late fifteenth century with Portugal, Spain, and England as its forerunners (Ferro, 1997). Colonies…

Hernan Cortes and his conquistadors were able to conquer Tenochtitlan. This was due to having superior weaponry beyond known knowledge. The effects of the known epidemic small pox, which overawed the Aztec population . There was a severe shock to the Aztec leadership while leaving an untarnished leadership. This lead to a direct downfall of the Aztec civilisation. This was the end of the first stage of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire. Hernan Cortes was building up both alliances and…

European explorers, conquistadors, and settlers from the Age of Exploration should not be celebrated in the twenty-first century because even though they explored the places that we now live, they terrorized every native in every continent, country, and city that they explored. Europeans first began affecting native Indians in the 1400s when they brought smallpox to the Incas and Aztecs. Conquistadors terrorized native communities by trying to convert them to Christianity. Europeans inflicted…