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Spanish Conquest in America - Coggle Diagram
Spanish Conquest in America
Caribean Conquest
The Canaries and the Espanola island (the Dominican Republic and Haiti) were places where Spanish began to practice their conquest and colonization.
Also, at that moment, local institutions named as town halls were created. They worked as control institutions of wealth. Also, it was imposed that 20% of gold found to need it to be given to the Spanish Kingdom.
However, Europeans brought with them a disease knew as smallpox. Europeans had never experienced catastrophic proportions of the disease. Therefore, 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.
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Mexican Conquest
Diego de Vásquez, governor of Cuba, sent Hernán Cortés to Mexico. In 1519, Hernán Cortés ' ships arrived in Yucatán along the Mexican coast. In Tabasco, Cortés encountered resistance from the natives. He quickly mastered them, and the natives surrendered.
Cortez's wife was the translator as she was a native of Tabasco and managed to converse with Moctezuma. Cortés obtained help from Tlaxcalans and Totonac native allies and Governor Moctezuma to enter Tenochtitlán after the establishment of Veracruz, declared independent of Governor Velásquez. While Cortés held Tenochtitlan through Montezuma, a Spanish force from Cuba landed on the coast of Mexico.
They had been sent by Diego Velázquez to overthrow Cortés. When Cortés learned of this, he took a garrison of Spanish and Tlaxcalan soldiers and marched on the Spanish.
CONQUEST IN OTHER
PARTS OF AMERICA
INCA EMPIRE
In 1532 the Inca Empire was conquered by Francisco Pizarro with the help of indigenous allies
Atahualpa was taken prisoner by Spaniards demanding for his freedom or a ransom of gold and silver
THE CAJAMARCA MEETING
A total of 168 men entered the town of Cajamarca in November 1532, where the first meeting between Atahualpa and Pizarro would take place. ... Thus the so-called disbandment of Cajamarca took place, which culminated in the Inca's prison and his subsequent execution.
