Francisco Pizarro: Spanish explorer who discovered and conquered the Inca Empire, nowadays Peru. Hernán Cortés: Spanish explorer who discovered and conquered the Aztec Empire, nowadays central Mexico.
Pizarro and Cortés were two great men in the history of the world, men who made an impact in society and left their print for future generations. There have been many conquerors and discoverers that, like them, have contributed to the advances in the world made by the human race. Discoveries and conquers have been made all over the world, in every civilization, in every period of time. History books are full of people who, in a way or another, changed the world, either by finding a cure to a certain disease, by making an important exploration, or by converting people into a certain religion. Some holidays, hospitals, schools, airports, and even churches are named after significant people who influenced our lives (and with “our” I mean the world as a whole) in such way that we want to remember them forever.
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Cortes helped build more farms throughout the country and other necessities for making the economy better. Hernan constantly looked for ways to keeping his power, growing his country, making sure the number of assets he owned kept increasing, and he would constantly look for ways of defeating those who would try to overthrow him. Since Cortes had a spark for exploration, he sponsored many of the exploration trips that were carried out in his country. Thinking about making the economy better, he built more cities, and even promoted industrialization by starting sugar factories. He spread Christianity amongst the people. Basically, Hernan Cortes did a fine job of laying the Mexico City on top of the old Aztec Tenochtitlan. To make sure he did not let his personal wishes aside, in 1524, Cortes left to explore the world more and that led him to the jungles of Honduras.
Francisco Pizarro was a famous Spanish explorer. On September 13, 1524, Francisco Pizarro set sail from Panama to a conquest of Peru. He brought about eighty men and forty horses with him. In 1528, Pizarro went back to Spain managed to obtain in a group of people from Emperor Charles V. Francisco Pizarro was known for capturing the Inca Emperor, Emperor Atahualpa, in 1532. In 1533, Pizarro conquered Peru.
After the discovery of the new world, by Christopher Columbus, rapidly the Europeans navigate from their countries to the new world in search of gold and precious rocks that have a value for their kings or queens. Hernan Cortes, born in Medellin, Spain, was a conquistador mainly best known as the conquistador that found Tenochtitlan, which is now call Mexico City. During the conquista Bernal del Castillo and Hernán Cortés describe the struggles and other issues that they had to find the city Tenochtitlan through writing it on a book. Tenochtitlan, at that point, had amazing building structure and an extensive market. The Aztec or Mexica had, when found by Cortez, an extensive knowledge of Astronomy, time, and including Mathematics. After Cortes’s entrance to Tenochtitlan the king, Moctezuma, believe that Spaniards were part of their culture or history, as the same as Toltecs.
Hernan Cortes was born at Medellin in Spain in the year 1485 and eventually became one of the great Governors of Mexico City. It all started in 1518 when the Governor of Cuba (Diego Velazquez) placed him in charge of an expedition to explore Mexico for colonization. In February, 1519, Cortes was about to set sail when Velazquez changed his mind at tried to replace him; however Cortes in an act of mutiny pushed forward anyway. In March of 1519, Cortes claimed the land for the Spanish Crown (Charles V). Because of this great victory and the gold that Cortes sent back to Spain, he was named Governor and Captain General of Mexico in 1523.
Francisco Pizarro, Born in Trujillo, Estremadura, Spain, in 1471. He was the son of Gonzalo Pizarro and Francisca Gonzalez, Francisco did not know how to read or write. He had little education throughout his life. His father was a captain of infantry and had fought in many battles. Pizarro always wanted to explore and sail. Pizarro set sail to Urabi. He lost many men during his explorations. He went to Cartagena, where he met another explorer named Balboa and they became close friends. When Balboa was beheaded by his successor, Pedrarias Davila, Pizarro followed another explorer along the Pacific coast. He went on another exploration into the territory of the around present day Costa Rica.
Slide 3- on the new expedition Pizarro brought with him a man by the name of Diego de Almargo in 1532 and used Ecuador as the staging point for new invasion of Inca Empire.
The fact that Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo was educated helped him immensely in his travels. Cabrillo knew how to build ships and was very good at it. This helped the crew make it to the New World without dying in the rough seas. According to the written text by the Mariners Museum, Cabrillo also knew how to read and write which most sailors did not know how to do at that time because of the sparse amounts of schooling they received. With that ability he could read maps and navigate his ship easier than some others. Also, Cabrillo developed a trade between the Spanish, Guatemala, and a few other places in the Americas. He helped Guatemala establish their trade routes and figure out which goods to keep and which ones to trade. Only an educated man could do that. The natives of Guatemala had a lot to thank him for. That goes along with the next point.
Hernán Cortés intended to bring back riches from America not conquer a people, but he and his conquistadors, who coincided with the return of the god Quetzalcóatl, were responsible for the death of the Aztec emperor, Montezuma.
Why was Cortes with 508 soldiers able to conquer the Aztec Empire with millions of people?
...n, Gonzalez states his identity; "I am Aztec Prince and Christian Christ." This combination of culture is the basis of his poem, which can be found at http://www.pbs.org/chicano/joaquin.html, and is representative of the heritage of Mexican Americans. The concept of Aztlan is explained in Chicano!, and the mural ‘Corazon de Aztlan,’ found in Chicano Park (http://chicanopark.org/murals/north/n8.html ), reinforces the importance of this image in the lives of Chicanos. The myth of Aztlan symbolizes centuries of culture and struggles of Mexican Americans who went through incredibly difficult times throughout history, but never lost hope and always stayed strong, determined to one day be treated equally as citizens of the United States of America.
On October 12, 1492 Christopher Columbus landed on unknown territory, however, in his perspective of Earth he thought he made a new route to Asia. He travels throughout the lands, soon, he discovers new forms of inhabitant plants, as well as, indigenous people that were native to those lands. Years later he soon unravels that it was all unaccustomed terrain. The monarchy of Spain also discovers Columbus’s new discoveries, then, they send more explorers to conquer the lands. In 1520, Hernan Cortes goes with the order from Spanish royalty to go to the newly discovered lands to conquer them, also, help expand the Spanish empire. Overall, Columbus and Cortes both reported the new lands they recently discovered back to Spain, however, their descriptions
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them, and little if any was given in return. The people who live among these
As a lover of most types of rock music, I find myself listening to quite the array of songs from all sorts of artists. From recent hard rockers such as Seether and System of a Down, to more classical performers such as Styx or Aerosmith, they each created songs with many unique meanings to them, even with the more recent artists sticking to love. One soft rocker of the 1970’s, however found a meaning to write and perform a song concerning the events of the conquistadors’ arrival to the Americas, more specifically, Cortez and his invasion of the Aztec society. Neil Young, along with the group known as Crazy Horse, wrote and released a song in 1975 known as “Cortez the Killer,” and while it never even made the top 200’s in Billboards during that time, it can still enlighten us with the history that Young’s lyrics possess.