HERNANDO CORTES 1485-1547 Hernando Cortes was one of the bravest military leaders of all time. Born in Medellin, Spain, he was a Spanish Conquistador who conquered most of Central America. He also gave Spain three-hundred years of control over Mexico. Cortes started exploring in the early 1500’s. He explored to find riches and conquered by being observant of the natives.
With the wealth of the Americas Spain was able to finance nearly endless warfare in Europe to protect the Americas and bring Catholicism to the New World. In 1519 the promise for riches was fulfilled by Hernan Cortes’s march into Mexico. His expedition served as the model for Spaniards’ and other Europeans’ expectations that the New world could
The Monarchy of Spain ruled the land because of Spanish conquistadors who initially staked claim to the land in the name of Spain. This rule of the people of Middle America lasted from 1492 to 1898: over 400 years. Spain's colonial structure was created to introduce the Christian religion to new people and to take advantage of the trade. Spain ruled over what is now Mexico, California, and most of Central America (200-201). A clear cultural impact on Middle America is the main language.
What were some of the reasons that Cortez wanted to conquer the Aztecs? Cortez wanted to conquer the Aztecs because of gold. 5. What were some of the biggest advantages the Spanish had over the Aztecs? The biggest advantages the Spanish had over the Aztecs were weapons, horses.
As a result of European settlement, many populations of Native Americans were brought to near extinction. The hunger for a new and free word had blinded Europeans’ humanity towards the Native Americans that had lived in these lands for hundreds of years from the Atlantic to the Pacific in harmony and respect of their lands. The discovery of gold was of the most important factors that promoted violence against the Native Americans. When gold was discovered in California in 1848 it initiated a large amount of migrant traffic across the North American continent. This large influx of Americans brought more diseases to the Native Americans that devastated their tribes with great number of deaths.
The Strategic Use of Spanish Technology during the Conquest of Mexico In the 16th century, the kingdom of Spain was the greatest land on the planet, as it dominated the concept of global exploration and colonial expansion. The Spaniards also had another key factor in their favor: technology. When Spanish explorers landed in Mexico in 1519, under an expedition led by the great Hernando Cortes, after seizing Hispaniola and Cuba from the Taino natives in previous years, their technological superiority gave them an edge in toppling these newfound civilizations. While reading Stuart B. Schwartz’s two-sided recollection on the true conquest of Mexico titled Victors and Vanquished, readers will begin to notice how Cortes’s strategic utilization of technology during certain parts of the conquest would help the invading Spaniards successfully overcome the primitive, brute strength of the indigenous Mexica, through the Spanish adaptation of the struggles they faced along the way, and how they benefited from befriending their enemies. In the early, prepatory stages of the conquest, Bernal Diaz, a soldier and companion of Cortes, compared the Spanish leader’s popularity in the New World to that of Alexander the Great in Macedonia, Julius Caesar in Rome, and Hannibal in Carthage.
A People’s History of the United States: Reflection Chapter 1 Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress To summarize this chapter, Howard Zinn covers a period of time in which exploration was at its peak and the unknown, over periods of months and sometimes years, was quickly made known. The goal of exploration at this time was gold and other items of value that were supposed to be gathered (by any means necessary) and brought back to the homeland. Zinn begins the retelling of history with one of the most well-known events in history: the arrival of Christopher Columbus at the “indies”. Columbus, funded by Spain, sails to what is actually the Bahamas with 3 ships. He arrives, welcomed by the Arawak Indians, and at the first sight of gold (which came from the gold earrings on the Indians’ ears) took some prisoner and demanded that he be shown the site of the gold.
The Spanish conquistador Bernal Díaz del Castillo wrote his version of what he had witnessed during the conquest, The True History of the Conquest of New Spain, decades after the Spanish victory in 1521. The spiritual conquest of the Indian Mexico commenced instantaneously after the Spanish conquistadores vanquished at the Aztec Empire military. The Spaniards were staunchly Roman Catholic. It is important to note that Spain’s rise to power resulted as a direct consequence of regaining the Iberian cape away from the Muslim rule. In Return, due to having driven out the Moors, the Pope granted the Spanish Crown authority over the Church within its spheres, efficiently making it an arm of the state.
Overview When Columbus stumbled upon the “New World” in 1492, he unwittingly initiated one of the most profound transformations in world history – a transformation that continues to shape the world in which we live today. One of the most important early phases of this transformation, was the so-called Spanish “conquest” of the New World, and the creation of the Spanish colonial empire. For within a few short decades of Columbus’ arrival on Caribbean shores, the Spanish created one of the most formidable empires in European history by conquering and colonizing vast stretches of the Americas. By 1550, Spain dominated the lands and peoples around the Caribbean, and deep into both North and South America: a domain more than ten times larger than
The result was a convincing United States victory, and there were many consequences for the emerging power. The most significant was the signing of the Guadalupe Hidalgo Treaty, which represented, among other things, a massive expansion of United States territory. The Treaty had many effects on the United States apart from the land, such as The Gadsden Purchase, the start of major tensions between North and South US that eventually led to the civil war, the opportunity for settlement and economic development in the new territories, and the issue of slavery that was raised which led to the Calhoun Doctrine and the Wilmot Proviso. The Guadalupe-Hidalgo treaty was signed on February 2nd 1848, and ended the Mexican War. The treaty ceded to the United States the states of California, New Mexico, Nevada and Utah, as well as parts of Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Wyoming and Texas, which was used to establish the new eastern border between the US and Mexico, the Rio Grande.