Spanish Conquistadors
Leanne Patton
Cortes and Conquistadors
Cortes defeated the Aztecs around the Renaissance and Elizabethan era. He defeated them by becoming allies with other tribes that hated the Aztecs and their traditional practices (human sacrifices). Conquistadors were the people who followed Cortes. It means conqueror.
Francisco Pizarro
Pizarro conquered the Incas by capturing their ruler, Atahualpa, and setting a ransom on his life. Once the Incas gave him the ransom (a chamber full of gold), Pizarro burned Atahualpa alive instead of setting him free.
Ferdinand Magellan
Magellan- mostly his crew- were the first to circumnavigate the world, to prove that the world was not flat.