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SPANISH CONQUERORS (Hernán Cortés (Spanish conquistador who explored…
SPANISH CONQUERORS
Hernán Cortés
Spanish conquistador who explored Central America, overthrew Montezuma and his vast Aztec empire and won Mexico for the crown of Spain.
n 1504, Cortés left Spain to seek his fortune in New World. After fending off the Spanish forces, Cortés returned to Tenochtitlán to find a rebellion in progress, during which Montezuma was killed.
Was born in 1485, in Medellín Spain and died in 1547 in Spain.
The Aztecs eventually drove the Spanish from the city, but Cortés returned again to defeat them and take the city in 1521, effectively ending the Aztec empire.
Gonzalo de Sandoval
Since 1519 he participated in the conquest of Mexico, along with Cortés, who remained loyal.
He carried out various expeditions to Tuxtepec, where he founded Medellín and the port of Espirito Santo, and the Pacific (1523).
(Medellín, 1497-Palos, 1527) Spanish conqueror.
He directed the government of New Spain with Alonso de Aguilar, until his return to Spain (1527).
Pánfilo Narvaez
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Later he was sent by him to Mexico to subdue Cortes who attacked him in Cempoala, made him a prisoner (1520) and kept him imprisoned for three years.
Valladolid, 1470 - Gulf of Mexico, 1528)
In 1526 he organized an expedition to Florida, dying in a shipwreck off the coast of Texas.
Lope de Aguirre
Above all he was involved in the struggles between the Spanish colonizers: first in the civil wars between Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro (1537-54).
Supporting the viceroy Blasco Núñez Vela in the implementation of the New Laws against the resistance of the colonists, headed by Gonzalo Pizarro (1544-46).
Spanish rebel conqueror. Lope de Aguirre passed to Peru shortly after his discovery, around 1536, and participated in the conquest and colonization of several places.
Pedro de Alvarado
After having participated in the final occupation of Cuba, he joined the Hernán Cortés expedition to Mexico.
On November 8, 1519, both conquerors entered Tenochtitlan, where they were received by the Aztec king Moctezuma Xocoyotzin, who housed them in one of the city's palaces.
(Badajoz, 1485 - Guadalajara, present-day Mexico, 1541) Spanish conqueror.
Gonzalo Pizarro
He was the younger brother of Francisco Pizarro, whom he accompanied on his expedition to the Inca Empire in 1531.
When the conquest of Peru was completed, he was appointed governor of Quito in 1539.
Spanish conqueror (Trujillo, Extremadura, 1511/13 - Cuzco, 1548).
Diego de Almagro
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t seems that he was the illegitimate son of Juan de Montenegro and Elvira Gutiérréz, which is why he adopted the name of his hometown as a surname.
(Almagro, Spain, 1475 - Cuzco, current Peru, 1538) Spanish conqueror, discoverer of Chile.
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Was the gobernador of the Darien, and was a Spanish conquistador.
Is known for being the first European to discover the Pacific Ocean on September 25, 1513 and the first European to found a permanent city on American continental lands.
Born in 1475 at Spain, First European sighting of the Pacific Ocean and colonial governance in what is now Panama.
Francisco de Orellana
He participated in the conquest of the Inca Empire and, subsequently, was appointed governor in various towns. He was considered one of the richest conquerors of the time.
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Francisco de Orellana (Trujillo, Extremadura; 1511 - near the Amazon River, November 1546), was a Spanish explorer, conqueror and foreman at the time of the Spanish colonization of America.
Francisco Pizarro
The decades after the discovery of America had as main protagonists the so-called conquerors, Spanish military who on some occasions, with scarce resources and adequate doses of boldness and sagacity, managed to take over immense territories took control of the rich and powerful Inca Empire.
(Trujillo, Spain, 1478 - Lima, 1541) Conqueror of Peru.