Summary Of Buddy Levy's 'Conquistador'

Hernan Cortes was a hero that conquered the Aztec Empire. Hernan Cortes’ was an educated man. Military ran in his blood, his father was an officer in the Spanish army. He attended the University of Salamanca when he was only 14 years old. When Hernan Cortes was only 19 he joined Diego Velazquez and Nicola de Overdo on their voyages to the New World.

Matthew Campos Period 3 #2 Francisco Vasquez de Coronado Francisco Vasquez de Coronado was a very famous Spanish Conquistador. He was a very important explorer and was a famous man in his town of Mexico City. He explored many places and discovered many things. He was also the governor of a Mexican Province. Friar Marcos de Niza returned hoe to Mexico City from a long journey.

1495, three years after Columbus's discovery of the new world, Maximo Zamoria, a Spanish conquistador, set off to the Americas in search of gold and glory. Maximo gathered a crew of one hundred strong and well-trained men, along with his right hand man, Samuel. With the permission of the Spanish king, Maximo and his men gathered enough supplies for half a year of travel, and got the finest Spanish sailing vessel to set off for the new world.

Hernan Cortes. Spain’s savior, nightmare for the Aztecs. The man who brought gold and glory to Spain, at the cost of the destruction of a rich, thriving civilisation. Hernan Cortez was a cunning, manipulative, intelligent conquistador and he and his army single handedly took down one of the greatest civilizations of all time by forging, advanced weaponry, alliances and the Conquistador’s Formula. Some may argue that Dona Marina is most responsible because she advised and told Cortes what the enemy was planning, but she was merely a pawn in Cortes’s grand scheme of conquering the Aztecs, as Cortes was the true mastermind and defeated the Aztecs for these reasons: First Cortes and his army has more advanced weapons such as Halberds, crossbows,

After meeting Montezuma, Cortés requested of the leader’s services to uncover the locations of the gold mines and to map the coastal waters. Cortés hopes to find regions along the New World’s coast safe enough to build forts to expand Spanish settlement and to transport tradable goods. Cortés’s urgency to locate the reserves extrapolates Spain’s focus in becoming one of the dominating world powers and an active player in the Afroeurasian trade competition. Cortés’s claim over the mines under the name of the Spanish Crown foreshadows the exploitation of the new lands to generate Spain’s wealth through the demand of gold.

Francisco Vásquez de Coronado was a explorer through his majority if his life. He spent almost half his life in Mexico and the Americas. He was searching for a golden city. Why did Coronado to go to Mexico and the Americas? When he arrived to the Americas what did he find?

In 1519 Hernan Cortes conquered the Aztec empire in Tenochtitlan, the capital city and had claimed the Aztec empire, or what is now Mexico, for Spain. This scene was called the “Spanish Conquest of the Aztec empire”1. Hernan Cortés is one of the most well-known Spanish conquistadors. Cortes was fascinated about the journey of Christopher Columbus New world explorations and decided to seek fortune and adventure and so at age 19, he set sail for the New World.2 Cortes had lot of on board knowledge that the Spanish had which led to them conquering the Aztec for Spain. However, many things have challenged them to complete their desire.

Hernando Cortes, a Spanish Conquistador and explorer, left Spain in 1504 destined for the New World--never to return--making several changes. Cortes first stop was the island of Hispaniola where he spent the 11 years helping to plan the conquest of Cuba. Life was good in Cuba, so good that he was second in charge but not good enough for Cortes for there was no gold. He left Cuba telling an incredible lie where upon meeting the mainland of the coast he burned his ships leaving only T. as his destination. Upon reaching T., the true colors of Cortes emerged; colors that are insidious, malignant, and barbarous.

The Conquistador of the New World Cabeza de vaca had a purpose for taking sail in 1527. Cabeza de vaca wanted to establish settlements along the gulf coast. Cabeza de vaca's ship went off course so they had to build rafts and leave the ship after they left the ships a strong wind blew them out into the open sea. Some people say he landed in modern day galveston. Which he was healed captive as a slave for a tribe called charrucos, he was healed as a healer.

Diego was said to be a well known jokester, “plump master of Cuba who was said to be first-in-line to conquer Mexico,” as said in the book along with being money hungry, he went on two consecutive expeditions in two years leaving no supplies or money to go to another to follow a lead on the famous dream of El Dorado. Desperately, Velazquez convinced a wealthy man by the name of, Hernan Cortes, to fund and lead the expedition with responsibilities of bringing a substantial amount of treasures to him to give to the King of Spain in return of fame and fortune. Hernan Cortes was a very “vivacious, likable, and literate; he could even pepper his speech with Latin.” However, Cortes ambitious behaviour got the best of him when he departed from Velazquez before he could arrive on the boat before departing onto their journey, for Cortes wanted to take all the credit and treasures for himself and took the boat and crew, leaving with no contact for over two months. Velazquez wants to give Cortes the benefit of the doubt decided to wait to hear word from him, however, gave up when there were rumours of Cortes and his men meeting some Native Americans whom gave them large amounts of wealthy possessions and gave them shelter and became allies; soon Cortes sent samples of the treasures to the King to receive more funds and crew members to help the mining of the silver and gold that was plentiful in those

Because the Aztecs made enemies with the neighbouring groups Cortes was able to gain many more soldiers. Cortes was able to go from 500 soldiers to around 200000. Because the Aztecs have been taking tributes from those neighbouring groups, the indigenous people want to fight the Aztecs and help Cortes. The Aztecs making enemies with the neighbouring groups was a vital reason why Cortes was able to defeat the Aztecs. This helped Cortes able to grow his army from 500 to 200000.

Spanish voyages searched for gold. Spanish conquistadors in the 16th century

The Spanish were able to colonize Mexico without much resistance.” After the smallpox epidemic, the Aztecs were even more vulnerable. The Spanish exploration and conquering of Tenochtitlan was to gain power for the Spanish empire, but the city’s people were somewhat considered rebellious, and consequently, Cortes needed to conquer/kill the people first. By taking down the people of the city, Cortes was exposed to the city’s great treasures for his reward of gold; he retrieved all the gold he could, and travelled back to Spain where he was labelled a hero for his acts of

European explorers and conquistadors during the age of exploration were motivated by three things: God, gold and glory. The two most prominent of the three between 1492 and 1607 were gold and glory. Beginning in 1492 gold motivated many explorers, from Christopher Columbus’s voyage to the New World to the Virginia Company’s colonization of America. Gold is a symbol for wealth, and many explorers soon realized the New World’s potential for wealth. The Spanish’s interest in wealth inspired Columbus’s expedition in the first place, as he was sent to India to trade for spices.

The Spanish empire wanted to come and expand their religion and get money as well of their purpose towards the reason why they migrated to the New World. Bernal Diaz del Castillo, who was one of the Spanish conquistadors, on the reason of Spanish motivations towards the New World stated that, “We came to serve God and to get rich, as all men wish to