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Spanish conquest of America - Coggle Diagram
Spanish conquest of America
Caribbean Conquest
The Canarias and the Española (the Dominican Republic and Haiti) were places where Spanish began to practice their conquest and colonization.
However, Europeans brought with them a disease knew as smallpox. When the disease was brought over by the Europeans, the native people had no immunity to it and no chance to prepare for this disease that was so strange to them, so it represented the extermination of thousands of people.
Conquest in Mexico
Diego de Velásquez
:check: Governor of Cuba
:check: Sent an expedition to Mexico in 1519
:check: He declared, in 1493, that the territories discovered by Columbus and those that were discovered belonged to the kingdom of Castle, and forbale travel to "the Indies" without permission from the King and Queen of Spain.
Velasquez had sent an expedition with 18 ships and 1,500 men, with orders to subdue Cortes
Hernán Cortes
:check: His ships reached the Mexican coast at Yucatán.
:check: Yucatán provided him with food, supplies, women, and an interpreter.
:CHECK: Conquered Veracruz and became independent from
:CHECK: Diego de Velasquez I He wanted to conquer Tenochtitlan (capital of Mexican Empire)
Emperor Moctezuma
:check: Granted gold objects as gifts to the Spanish
:check: Prisioner of Hernan Cortes
:check: Spanish Garrisonv was attacked
:check: He used to ask the native people to provide gold to Hernan
:check: He died probably in the hands of his own people
Night of Sorrows
In 1520 Hernan Cortes and his army fought their way out of the Mexican capital at Tenochtitlan.
The Spanish referred to the escape as "The Night of Sorrows" because Mexicans killed 900 Spanish and one thousand Indigenous allies.
:check:Cortés attacked Tenochtitlan by water and land in April 1521
:check: With 300 Spanish and 15.000 Indigenous allies
:check:August 1521 the city was destroyed.
Conquest in other parts of America
In other parts of the continent, the tactic of Cortes was repeated. For example, in 1532 the Inca Empire was conquered by Francisco Pizarro, whose men kidnapped Emperor Atahualpa in exchange for a ransom of gold and silver.