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Spanish Conquistadors (Hernan Cortes (image (°In 1519 he set out from Cuba…
Spanish Conquistadors
Hernan Cortes
°In 1519 he set out from Cuba with 600 men on an expedition to mainland in present~day Mexico.
° By deftly exploiting traditional feuds and rivalries among the tribes that made up the Empire, he was able to conquer the mighty Aztecs.
Panfilo de Narvaez
°He was sent to Mexico to rein in the ambitions Hernán Cortés: Cortés not only beat him in battle but took all of his men and went on to conquer the Aztec Empire. °His expedition was a disaster of colossal proportions: only four out of 300 men survived, and he was not among them. He was last seen floating off on a raft in 1528.
Lope de Aguirre
°He already had a reputation for being violent and unstable in 1559, when he joined an expedition to search the jungles of South America for the legendary El Dorado.
°While in the jungle, Aguirre went mad and began murdering his companions.
Francisco Pizzaro
°He captured Atahualpa, Emperor of the Inca, in 1532 also he has the possession of all gold and silver.
°Playing off Inca factions against one another, Pizarro made himself master of Peru by 1533.
Pedro de Alvarado
°Cortes trusted him so he could explore and conquer lands to the south of Mexico.
° Alvarado found the remnants of the Maya Empire and using what he had learned from Cortés, soon turned local ethnic groups' mistrust of one another to his advantage.
Diego de Almagro
°He was a partner with Francisco Pizarro when Pizarro looted the wealthy Inca Empire, but Almagro was in Panama at the time and missed out on the best treasure (although he showed up in time for the fighting).
°Returning to Peru, he went to war with Pizarro, lost, and was executed.
Francisco de Orellana
° Although he was richly rewarded, he still wanted more loot, so he set off with Gonzalo Pizarro and more than 200 Spanish conquistadors in search of the legendary city of El Dorado in 1541.
°Pizarro returned to Quito, but Orellana kept heading east, discovering the Amazon River and making his way to the Atlantic Ocean: an epic journey of thousands of miles that took months to complete.
Gonzalo Pizarro
°By 1542, Gonzalo was the last of the Pizarro brothers in Peru.
° So when the Spanish crown passed the famously unpopular "New Laws" restricting conquistador privileges, the other conquistadors turned to Gonzalo, who led a bloody two-year revolt against Spanish authority before being captured and executed.
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
°Vasco Nuñez de Balboa (1475-1519) was a Spanish conquistador and explorer of the early colonial era.
°He is credited with leading the first European expedition to discover the Pacific Ocean (which he referred to as the "South Sea").
Gonzalo de Sandoval
°There was none he trusted more than Gonzalo de Sandoval, who was barely 22 when he joined the expedition.
°Time and again, when Cortes was in a pinch, he turned to Sandoval. After the conquest, Sandoval was richly rewarded with lands and gold but died young of an illness.
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