Spanish Conquistadors
Isabella Cruz
Hernando Cortez
- 1519
- conquistadors: "conquerors"
- conquered the Aztecs
Francisco Pizzaro
- 1532: leads force to Peru
- conquered the Incas
Ferdinand Magellan
- 1519: set to sail around the world
- he/his crew was the fist to circumnavigate the world
Advantages Against Other Natives
Weapons:
- had cannons and muskets
- they were only against arrows
Diseases:
- natives were not used to European diseases
- natives caught measles, mumps, small pox and typhus
weapons of the conquistadors