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.
Since the New World offered raw materials such as gold and silver, the Spaniards were eager to start colonizing and conquering the New World. To secured their claims to Columbus's discovery, Spain and Portugal created an agreement known as the Treaty of Tordesillas, which divided the land of the New World between the two European groups. The Spaniards invaded Mexico with the goals of the three Gs: gold, god, and glory. But conflict with their former allies would later initiate the crippling of Spain's New World empire. Event 3: Protestant Reformation - 1530s During the early 1500s, Spain and England were allies.
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.
The Plan of Iguala is the final push for independence from Spain. The plan was led by Agustin de Iturbide, a leading royalist military commander, and proposed it to Vicente Guerrero, a leading Mexican insurgent, a way to loosen the ties Spain had on Mexico. On February 24, 1821 both Guerrero and Iturbide put forward the plan for Independence known as the Plan of Iguala. The plan consist of three guarantees 1) full protection for the Catholic Church, 2) Mexico will be an independent constitutional monarchy, and 3) equality of Spaniards and Crillos. The plan gained support across Mexico and O’Donoju, the viceroy, seeing that all was lost met with Iturbide and on August 24, 1821 signed the Treaty of Cordoba granting Mexico
Fearing that Cortes may later on renounce his authority once he gives him permission and he reaches Mexico, Velasquez denied him the authority. Cortez was however adamant. In 1519, he proceeded to Mexicoand under his authority were 11 ships, more than 500 soldiers, 100 sailors, 16 horses and artillery. Other authors say that there are other persons who were more qualified than Cortez to lead the expedition. But he was
Mexico was a new Fragile Nation State that lacked resources, technology and a stable central government, according to the history book Occupied America. According to Occupied America, Large number of colonist from the United States entered Texas in the 1820’s as refugees from the Depression of 1819. The decision to allow colonist from the United Sates to enter Texas was a calculated decision made by the Tejano population of the
Alvarez de Pineda was a Spanish explorer and cartographer. In 1519, the Governor of Jamaica, Francisco de Garay, sent de Pineda to explore and chart the Gulf Coast from Florida to Mexico in order to find a water route from the Gulf to the Orient. During this 9 month expedition, he mapped about 800 miles of coastline from western Florida to Veracruz, Mexico. Although de Pineda was killed in a battle with Native at the Panuco River in Mexico, his map made it back to Governor Garay. The map and an account of the expedition are in the Archivo General de Indias in Seville, Spain 1518: Alonso Alvarez de Pineda first landed on the South West coast of Florida but were attacked by hostile natives Alonso Alvarez de Pineda sailed up the Mississippi River and named it Rio del Espiritu Santo, the River of the Holy Spirit.
And on February 15, 1898, the USS Maine sank in Havana, in which an explosion caused 266 deaths. The Spanish officials conceded that this was a pure accident, however American officials claimed it was due to a mine. In comparison to this, Some Spanish and Cuban officials secretly thought that America might have intentionally caused the explosion as a pretext to go to war with Spain. And eventually after America had defeated Spain in the war, they were able to extend territorially, due to possessing Cuba. In Comparison, another factor which
Tribes such as the Lencas, the Tecan Uman, and the Nicarao soon started taking over the overall dying city of Copan. In 1502 Columbus sailed past the Islas de la Bahía and shortly thereafter reached the mainland of Central America. Columbus marked his first direct contact while trading with the civilizations of Honduran and northern Central America. Little exploration took place for the next two decades. That was until Spanish navigators Juan Díaz de Solís and Vicente Yáñez Pinzón touched on part of the Honduran coast in 1508 and devoted most of their efforts to exploring the area.
It was the arrival of Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes in February of 1519 and it would be the beginning of the end for the Aztec and many other indigenous civilizations. Commissioned by Governor Velazquez of Cuba, Hernan Cortes was sent with roughly 500 soldiers to the eastern shores of Mexico to gain information on the indigenous people there and establish friendly relations. But Cortes, a man consumed by greed, had heard of legends that told of vast riches and treasures within Mexico, and with that the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs had already begun. In direct defiance of Velazquez’s orders not to engage in a war of conquest, Cortes arrived with the intentions of a complete Spanish conquest over the indigenous people, whom he would learn called themselves the Aztec. Initially, small tribes greeted them and bestowed them with gifts, and Cortes even acquired a translator named Malinche who would play a crucial role in the downfall of her own people.