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THE CONQUEST AND COLONISATION OF AMERICA, Until 1515 - Coggle Diagram
THE CONQUEST AND COLONISATION OF AMERICA
They discovered American coast
Conquest of the continent's inland area
Convert natives into Christianity
They refused to live their customs
They were suppressed
conquest characteristics
Large empires
rigid hierarchy
conquistadores capture the emperor
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had rivalries
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unknown equipment
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Indigenous tribes
No hierarchy
attacking the leader
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Lived in rainforests
firearms and armour weren't effect
Lived in small territories
numerous exhausting battles
The resistance was weakened
Infectious diseases
Introduced by Europeans
They hadn't immunity
more than a half of natives died
Worse ones
smallpox
flu
measles
typhus
Key conquests
Conquest of the Aztec Empire
Hernán Cortés
Left Cuba
Reached the cost of Mexico
Indigenous groups suppressed by the Aztecs
Allied with Hernán Cortés to defeat Aztecs
Capture the Emperor Montezuma II
Victory in 1521
From Mexico
Southern part of USA
important expeditions
Vázquez de Coronado
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Juan de Oñate
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Ávar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
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Conquest of the Mayan civilisation
Pedro de Alvarado
left Mexico
conquered Mayan cities
Yucatán
Honduras
Conquest of the southern regions
very difficult
because of resistance
Mapuche (Chile)
conquered by Pedro Valdivia
Guaraní (Río de Plata)
Pedro de Mendoza
Juan de Ayolas
Domingo Martínez de Irala
Conquest of the Inca Empire
Francisco Pizarro and Diego Almagro
1531
Benefit from the Inca Civil War
reached the heart of the empire
62 horsemen
110 soldiers
Captured the Emperor Atahualpa
conquered Cuzco and other major cities
Until 1515
Castilian occupation had been limited
base areas for expeditions
Isthmus of Panama
Caribbean islands
