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Spain Builds an American Empire - Coggle Diagram
Spain Builds an American Empire
Christopher Columbus
First encounters in October 12, 1492 (An island in the Bahamas in the Caribbean sea.
Believed he landed in the Indies
Named land: San Salvador (Holy Savior)
Italian explorer and navigator
Amerigo Vespucci
Named land "America" (after his own name)
German mapmaker (1507)
Spanish Conquests in Mexico
Hernando Cortés
"Conquistadors"
"God in armor"
Corté's men killed Aztec warriors at a festival in1520
Advanced superior weaponry
Enlist help from various native groups
Disease Europeans brought to America
Spanish Conquests in Peru
Francisco Pizarro
Army of 200
Ambush and kidnapped Atahualpa
Captured Incan capital (Cuzco) in 1533
Atahuapla (Incan ruler)
Command force about 30000
Brought mostly unarmed men for meeting
Filled a room with gold and sliver exchange for release (got killed)
Spain's Patter of Conquest
