Conquistador
A Conquistador (English: Conqueror; : Conquistadores, or Conquistadors) was a Spanish or Portuguese soldier, explorer and adventurer.[1][2] The Conquistadors invaded and conquered much of the Americas and the Philippines Islands and other islands in Asia Pacific. Many of them were hidalgos (noblemen of low category).
Their conquests brought these lands under Spanish and Portuguese colonial rule between the 15th and 17th centuries, starting with the 1492 settlement by Christopher Columbus in what is now the Bahamas. They created what is now called Latin America.[3]
The first successful conquistador was Hernán Cortés. Between 1520 and 1521, Cortés and the native enemies of the Aztecs, conquered the mighty Aztec Empire. Present day Mexico came under the dominion of the Spanish Empire, as New Spain. Francisco Pizarro later found and conquered the similarly large Inca Empire.[4]
List of Conquistadors
- Alonso Dávila (México, 1520-1533)
- Alonso del Castillo Maldonado
- Alonso de Ojeda (Venezuela, Colombia, Guyana, Aruba)
- Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (United States, 1527-1536, 1540-1542)
- Antonio de Aragón, Tucumán (Argentina)
- Cristóbal de Olid (Honduras, 1523-1524)
- Diego de Almagro (Perú, 1524-1535, Chile, 1535-1537)
- Diego de Nicuesa (Panamá, 1506-1511)
- Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar (Cuba, 1511-1519)
- Domingo Martínez de Irala
- Francisco de Montejo (Yucatán, México, 1527-1546)
- Francisco de Orellana (Amazon River, 1541-1543)
- Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (Yucatán, México, 1517)
- Francisco Pizarro (Perú, 1509-1535)
- Francisco Vázquez de Coronado (United States, 1540-1542)
- Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada (Colombia, 1536-1537, Venezuela, 1569-1572)
- Gonzalo Pizarro (Perú, 1532-1542)
- Hernán Cortés (México, 1518-1522, Honduras, 1524, Baja California, 1532-1536)
- Hernando de Soto (United States, 1539-1542)
- Hernando Pizarro, (Perú, 1532-1560)
- Inés Suárez, (Chile, 1541)
- Juan de Esquivel, (Jamaica, 1509-1512)
- Juan de Salcedo, (North of Philippines, 1570-1576)
- Juan de Grijalva (Yucatán, México, 1518)
- Juan Pizarro, (Perú, 1532-1536)
- Juan Ponce de León (Puerto Rico, 1508, Florida, 1513 and 1521)
- Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo
- Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón (United States, 1524-1527)
- Martín de Goiti, (Manila, Philippines, 1570-1571)
- Martín de Ursúa, (Petén, Guatemala, 1696-1697)
- Miguel López de Legazpi, (Philippines, 1565-1571)
- Nicolás de Federmann (Venezuela and Colombia, 1537-1539)
- Pánfilo de Narváez (Florida, 1527-1528)
- Pedro de Alvarado (México, 1519-1521, Guatemala, 1523-1527, Perú, 1533-1535, México, 1540-1541)
- Pedro de Valdivia (Chile, 1540-1552)
- Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (Florida, 1565-1567)
- Sebastián de Belalcázar (Ecuador and Colombia, 1533-1536)
- Sebastián Vizcaíno
- Vasco Núñez de Balboa (Panamá, 1510-1519)
Conquistador Media
Hernán Cortés led the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire and expanded the Spanish Empire in the Americas
Afonso de Albuquerque expanded the Portuguese Empire across the Indian Ocean
Ponce de León and his explorers in Florida searching for the Fountain of Youth
Christopher Columbus and his Spanish crew making their first landfall in the Americas in 1492
Dom Francisco de Almeida, Viceroy of Portuguese India.
Hernando de Soto and Spanish conquistadors seeing the Mississippi River for the first time.
Conquistadors praying before a battle at Tenochtitlan
Francisco Pizarro meets with the Inca emperor Atahualpa, 1532
A figure of a Moor being trampled by a conquistador's horse at the National Museum of the Viceroyalty in Tepotzotlan.
A page of the Durán Codex (1576) depicting Hernán Cortés and La Malinche in Tenochtitlan
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References
- ↑ "Definition of CONQUISTADOR". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 2022-07-30.
- ↑ Vanhanen, Tatu (1997). Prospects of democracy: a study of 172 countries. New York: Routledge. p. 112. ISBN 0-415-14405-1.
- ↑ "Focus on Latin America". Center For International Education. Archived from the original on 2022-07-30. Retrieved 2022-07-30.
- ↑ "Francisco Pizarro". HISTORY. Retrieved 2022-07-30.
Other websites
- The Conquistadors - Start the Adventure (PBS): https://www.pbs.org/opb/conquistadors/home.htm